The Grammardog Guide to Rip Van Winklecontains 16 analytical multiple choice quizzes with a total of over 250 questions. These multiple choice questions based on text sentences from the short story by Washington Irving are excellent teaching tools, providing the basis for thoughtful, engaging activities for your students.
Quizzes feature famous quotes ("A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use." "But what courage can withstand the ever-during and all-besetting terrors of a woman's tongue?") Figurative language includes: "like a colt at his mother's heels," "the yoke of matrimony," "the muttering of one of those transient thunder showers."
