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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. Who is Peter Stuyvesant?
(a) Rip's neighbor.
(b) The owner of the village inn.
(c) The village schoolmaster.
(d) A former governor of New York.

3. From the reference to the painting in the parsonage, what can the reader deduce about the men that Rip meets in the mountains?
(a) They are standing unnaturally still.
(b) They look like European royalty.
(c) They look like many copies of the same person.
(d) They look like Dutchmen from long ago.

4. When on page 31, the narrator says of Rip that he will "eat white bread or brown," how is Rip being characterized?
(a) He overeats.
(b) He is easy to please.
(c) He only likes two kinds of bread.
(d) He is unaware of what he is eating.

5. Rip thinks that the people of the village have become "disputatious" (37). What does this mean they are likely to do?
(a) Relax.
(b) Laugh.
(c) Think.
(d) Argue.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Rip hurry over to the man he sees on the mountainside?

2. What is the purpose of the stories in the Postscript?

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. Under what pseudonym was "Rip Van Winkle" published?

5. How might Rip's house be described?

(see the answer key)

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