Text of Book
pages 16–20, page 0
pages 16–20, page 1
pages 16–20, page 2
pages 16–20, page 3
pages 16–20, page 4
Questions
| 1) | What time does Ichabod arrive at the Van Tassel residence? |
| 2) | What is the name of Brom Bones' horse? |
| 3) | What did Ichabod Crane find in the parlor? |
| 4) | What did Ichabod Crane do in the parlor? |
| 5) | How was Baltus Van Tassel at the party? |
| 6) | What was in the common room? |
| 7) | How was Brom Bones feeling in the common room? |
| 8) | Why does the author say ghost stories are mainly in Dutch communities? |
| 9) | In the quote, "Just sufficient time had elapsed to enable each storyteller to dress up his tale with a little becoming fiction…", what does "sufficient" mean? |
| 12) | Who is the favorite supernatural being haunting the area? |
| 13) | Where did the ghosts primarily haunt? |
| 14) | One of the characters is described as "a most heretical disbeliever in ghosts."
What does this description mean? |
| 16) | In the same quote below, what does "thrice" mean?
"This story was immediately matched by a thrice marvellous adventure of Brom Bones, who made light of the Galloping Hessian as an arrant jockey." |
| 17) | Who has seen the Headless Horseman? |
| 18) | What happened when the goblin horse was losing a race? |
| 19) | What is different about his trip home than his trip to the party? |
| 20) | How did Ichabod react to the stories about the Headless Horseman? |
| 23) | How was Ichabod feeling when he left the party? |
| 24) | What time did Ichabod leave the party? |
| 25) | What sounds could Ichabod hear on his way home? |
| 26) | There is no right answer, but how does the setting make you feel at the end of page 20? |
| 27) | Were there any events that weren't clear to you? |