The Devil and Tom Walker

What is the story's setting?

• a Midwestern frontier pine forest, circa 1608

• The New Orleans, Louisiana, riverfront, circa 1680

• A forest near Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1727

• A pond deep in the Maine forest, circa 1850

Tom Walker might best be described as--

• having been beaten down by bad luck

• basically kind but misunderstood

• crafty but very lazy

• stingy, cruel, but courageous

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Tom Walker's wife is best described as---

• very generous and much loved by her neighbors

• kind toward her husband, but cruel to others

• yearning for companionship

• fierce, shrew, always nagging and yelling

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In this story, the woods are used to symbolize--

• evil

• goodness

• isolation

• greed

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Which of the following phrases is an example of Irving's sense of humor?

• "Tom consoled himself for the loss of his property, with the loss of his wife, for he was a man of fortitude."

• "He knows how to play his cards when pretty sure of his game."

• "He insisted that the money found through his means should be employed in his service."

• "You shall extort bonds, foreclose mortgages, drive the merchants to bankruptcy---"

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What does Irving use to symbolize hypocrisy and hidden evil?

• The devil's deal with Tom

• Mrs. Walker's heart and liver, wrapped in the checked apron

• The flourishing trees that are rotten to the core

• The Walker's silver teapots and spoons

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What enabled you to predict that the figure that appears to Tom in the forest is the devil?

• He appears when Tom kicks a skull

• He has large red eyes

• He has a hoarse, growling voice

• Tom is instantly frightened

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Tom's wife decides to go into the forest because she---

• wants to escape from Tom's unkindness

• decides to make her own deal with the devil

• gets lost on her way to the market

• wants to pick some herbs and wild mushrooms for their meager meal

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How does Tom die?

• The people he has cheated rise up against him

• He fall off his horse and gets trampled

• Tom is tricked by his own words

• He is killed by Native Americans

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What happens to Tom Walker's money at the end of the story?

• It is given to the townspeople

• It goes to Mrs. Walker

• The townspeople seize it

• It turns into cinders and ashes

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