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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. After he can no longer spend time with his friends, where does Rip start going to spend time away from his home and farm?
(a) The river.
(b) The seashore.
(c) The barn.
(d) The woods.
2. What is the first thing that the villagers want to know about Rip?
(a) What has happened to his family.
(b) Whether he supported the American Revolution.
(c) Where he has been for twenty years.
(d) Which political party he supports.
3. When Rip wakes in the morning on the mountainside, what does he think has happened to his gun?
(a) He thinks that he must have left it in the amphitheater.
(b) He thinks that he might have dropped it in the woods.
(c) He thinks that the strange men are playing some kind of joke.
(d) He thinks that the strange men have stolen it.
4. Where does Rip go to live after he returns to the village?
(a) At his former home.
(b) At his son's house.
(c) At his daughter's house.
(d) At the Union Hotel.
5. Why does Diedrich Knickerbocker believe that the reader should accept Rip's story as true?
(a) He himself met the ghostly explorer and his crew.
(b) Every witness that he interviewed verified Rip's story, and he heard the same story from all of them.
(c) His own father met the ghostly explorer and his crew.
(d) He himself met Rip and saw a judge verify Rip's soundness of mind.
Short Answer Questions
1. In the Postscript, the narrator mentions someone being "propitiated" (42). What does this mean?
2. Who is the owner of the Union Hotel?
3. From the description of Rip's attitude to his farm, on page 30, what can be deduced about Rip?
4. What does the man that Rip traveled up the mountainside with want Rip to do once they reach the other men?
5. Why does Rip hurry over to the man he sees on the mountainside?
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