Rip Van Winkle Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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Rip Van Winkle Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Page 37-Postscript.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Rip breaks down over seeing his son, what does the crowd begin to think?
(a) He is lying.
(b) He really is who he says he is.
(c) He is mentally ill.
(d) He is playing a prank.

2. When Rip is tired from hunting, he lies down on a knoll. What is he lying on?
(a) A fallen tree.
(b) A flat spot.
(c) A rounded depression.
(d) A small hill.

3. What strikes Rip as very odd about the way the men on the mountainside are behaving?
(a) Even though they are playing a game, they seem unhappy.
(b) They seem to be completely unable to see him, even though he is standing very close to them.
(c) They seem to be expecting him, because there is an open spot left for him.
(d) Although no one speaks, they keep nodding and laughing.

4. Where does Rip go to live after he returns to the village?
(a) At the Union Hotel.
(b) At his son's house.
(c) At his former home.
(d) At his daughter's house.

5. How does Rip end up drinking some of the men's strange liquor?
(a) The men gather around him and force him to drink.
(b) He sneaks it when they are not looking.
(c) He mistakes it for water.
(d) The man he arrived with pours him a cup.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Rip and the stranger climb up on their way up the mountainside?

2. When Rip starts up the mountainside and finds his joints stiff and notices that he is not feeling as athletic as usual, what does he think is the cause?

3. On page 29, the narrator says that a person might have "descried" the smoke from the village. What does this mean a person might have done?

4. In the Postscript, the narrator mentions someone being "propitiated" (42). What does this mean?

5. Rip thinks that the people of the village have become "disputatious" (37). What does this mean they are likely to do?

(see the answer key)

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