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Literature Comprehension

A) Direct questions and answers

1) What kind of person was Rip Van Winkle? What did he like to do?

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2) What was strange about the men whom Rip met in the hills?

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3) Nobody recognised Rip when he reached the village. Why?

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B) Reference to context

4) ‘They thought it was Dame until they saw a small man dressed in strange clothes.’

a) Who does ‘they’ refer to?

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b) Who was Dame?

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c) How do you think Rip Van Winkle felt when he saw the small man?

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5) ‘Rip recognised the sound that he had been hearing all along.’

a) What sound is being referred to in this line?

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b) How was the sound produced?

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