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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 is hungry.
(b) He is too frightened to stay on the mountain.
(c) He wants to tell his wife about his adventure.
(d) He hopes that Wolf might have returned home.

3. 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.

4. Where does Rip find himself on the morning after meeting the strangers on the mountain?
(a) Lost in the woods on the mountainside.
(b) In the natural "amphitheater."
(c) Next to the Hudson River.
(d) Back at the spot where he met the first man coming up the mountain.

5. What does Rip keep hearing as he and the stranger climb up the mountainside?
(a) A deep, booming laugh.
(b) Something that sounds like thunder.
(c) Something that sounds like stampeding animals.
(d) The roar of a waterfall.

6. Rip is surprised by the "singularity" of the stranger's appearance (36). What kind of appearance is this?
(a) Funny.
(b) Frightening.
(c) Unique.
(d) Neat.

7. What are the "flagons" that the men on the mountainside have (34)?
(a) Weapons.
(b) Cups.
(c) Dice.
(d) Old-fashioned hats.

8. 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 look like many copies of the same person.
(b) They look like Dutchmen from long ago.
(c) They look like European royalty.
(d) They are standing unnaturally still.

9. When Rip and the stranger enter the natural amphitheater, Rip sees several people doing what?
(a) Bowling.
(b) Gambling.
(c) Drinking.
(d) Painting.

10. What does the man that Rip traveled up the mountainside with want Rip to do once they reach the other men?
(a) Let them paint his picture.
(b) Play a game with them.
(c) Leave.
(d) Serve them alcohol.

11. On page 33, Rip complies with the stranger's request with "his usual alacrity." How does Rip comply?
(a) Cheerfully.
(b) Lazily.
(c) Absentmindedly.
(d) Quickly.

12. On his way home from the mountains, what does Rip suddenly realize about his own appearance?
(a) His beard has grown a foot longer.
(b) His clothing is strangely worn and tattered.
(c) He has a deep sunburn.
(d) His face is covered with wrinkles.

13. When Rip sees a dog that looks like Wolf outside of his old house, how does the dog behave?
(a) It jumps up and licks his face.
(b) It seems to not be able to see him.
(c) It quivers in fear.
(d) It snarls at him and then walks away.

14. When Rip finds the path that he and the strange man took on the night before, what surprising change has happened?
(a) It is marked with several colors of dark paint.
(b) It is now a mountain stream.
(c) It is covered with splinters of wood from a keg.
(d) It is now a dense forest.

15. When Rip wakes in the morning on the mountainside, what does he think has happened to his gun?
(a) He thinks that the strange men have stolen it.
(b) He thinks that he might have dropped it in the woods.
(c) He thinks that he must have left it in the amphitheater.
(d) He thinks that the strange men are playing some kind of joke.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Rip's first worry when he wakes up on the mountainside in the morning?

2. How does Rip end up drinking some of the men's strange liquor?

3. When he is resting on the mountainside, what sound alerts Rip that someone is nearby?

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

5. Everything that happens to Rip on the morning after he meets the strangers on the mountain makes him feel "perplexities" (36). What does this mean that is Rip feeling?

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