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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. What evidence does the frame narrator give that the main story's narrator is still well-liked?
(a) There is a children's rope-skipping rhyme about him.
(b) His picture is stamped onto new year's cakes.
(c) There is a street in New York named after him.
(d) His portrait is hung in many local schools.

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

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

4. What causes Rip to finally start for home after he realizes that he will not be able to find the strange men again?
(a) He wants to tell his wife about his adventure.
(b) He is hungry.
(c) He hopes that Wolf might have returned home.
(d) He is too frightened to stay on the mountain.

5. When Rip nears the amphitheater where the group of men were on the night before, what does he notice?
(a) The men are gone, but there are tall rocks there that look like men.
(b) There is no longer an opening through the rock to reach the amphitheater.
(c) There is nothing left in the amphitheater except his own gun.
(d) The men are gone, but their equipment has been left behind.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the crowd react when Rip declares his loyalty to King George?

2. What makes Rip's infant grandchild begin to cry?

3. What is the stranger on the mountainside carrying?

4. On page 33, Rip complies with the stranger's request with "his usual alacrity." How does Rip comply?

5. When the crowd points out Rip's son, what confusion does it cause for Rip?

(see the answer key)

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