Rip Van Winkle

Name of the author of Rip Van Winkle?

• John Steinbeck

• Washington Irving

• Nathaniel Hawthorne

• William Faulkner

What is the setting of this tale?

• Kaatskill Mountains; Pre-Revolutionary War

• Switzerland

• South Carolina; during Civil War

• England

Rip could be described as...

• good-natured

• kind

• lazy

• all of the above

What is the "great error in Rip's" character?

• obedience

• laziness

• playfulness

• gossiping

The antagonist in the story is...

• Wolf

• Judith

• Dame Van Winkle

• Nicholas Vedder

The strange men in the meadow were

• bowling

• digging holes

• trying to get away from their wives like Rip

• building homes

Rip was asleep for

• 200 years

• 1776 years

• 20 years

• 2 days

Rip slept through the

• Civil War

• The War of 1812

• Vietnam War

• Revolutionary War

Dame Van Winkle's overbearing control over Rip symbolized the overbearing control of...

• Judith over baby Rip

• Great Britain's King George III over the colonies

• Henry Hudson over his crew

• Peter Stuyvesant over the people he governed

The mountains are said to be haunted by

• the Headless Horseman

• Henry Hudson and his crew members

• Dame Van Winkle

• Rip Van Winkle