The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow Test Questions – Flashcards
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protagonist
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leading or major character of the story
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antagonist
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character who opposes the protagonist
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dynamic character
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character that experiences a change in a story
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static character
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character that remains unchanged in a story
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setting
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time and place of a story
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conflict
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major problem in the story that needs to be resolved
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internal conflict
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happens inside a character's mind
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external conflict
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exists between people, nature, or society's tradition
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plot
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series of related events in a story, beginning with a problem and ending with the solution of that problem
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legends
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traditional stories based on historical figures and exaggerate heroic deeds
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myths
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ancient stories whose authors are unknown that attempt to explain a belief, custom, or force of nature by telling something, explain aspects of the natural world
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folktales
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Story or legend forming part of an oral tradition.Folktales are generally passed down from one generation to another.
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Protagonist of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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Ichabod Crane
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Antagonist of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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Brom Bones
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theme
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a big idea, moral, or lesson about life learned from a story react when horrible things happen to them; superstitions
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What is the theme of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?
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how peop
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Setting of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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Sleepy Hollow in New York State following the American Revolution
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Mood of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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drowsy, sleepy, quiet, yet STRESSFUL
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Author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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Washington Irving
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Who do the villagers believe the Headless Horseman to be?
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Hessian soldier that had his head blown off during the American Revolution.
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What do the villagers believe he is doing out at night?
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Searching for head before sunlight.
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What is Ichabod Crane's jobs?
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school teacher, music teacher
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What are the two things Katrina is known for?
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her beauty and wealthy
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What two things make it crazy for Ichabod to be open about his feelings for Katrina?
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She has a lot of admirers and she plays with their affections.
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What two things does Brom Bones do to get back at Ichabod for trying to steal Katrina?
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practical jokes; humiliates him
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Rising action
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events that develop because of the conflict in the story
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Rising action of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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Ichabod and Brom fight over Katrina
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Climax
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this is the story's most emotional or suspenseful moment
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Climax of The Legend of Sleepy Hollowd
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Ichabod leaves the party and is found by the Headless Horseman
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Falling action
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the point in the story when the conflict is nearly resolved. The reader's anxiety about the resolution is beginning to go away.
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Falling action of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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The narrator explains that Ichabod had moved to New York , married, and became a lawyer
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Resolution
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The last part of the story when the conflict is resolved and the story comes to a close.
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Resolution of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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With Ichabod gone, Brom Bones marries Katrina
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Most famous spectre of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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Headless Horseman
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Ichabod's relationship with his neighbors can best be described as
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amiable.
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Description of Icabod
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tall, lanky, large crooked nose
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Description of Brom Bones
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Hercule's like; broad shoulders, dark hair, and handsome
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The only left behind of Ichabod after his encounter with the Headless Horseman was
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his hat
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Contents of Ichabod's estate after his death
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Two shirts and a half; two stocks for the neck; a pair or two of worsted stockings; an old pair of corduroy small-clothes; a rusty razor; a book of psalm tunes full of dog's-ears; a broken pitch-pipe; a copy of Cotton Mather's "History of Witchcraft;" a "New England Almanac;" and a book of dreams and fortune-telling
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What evidence was there that suggests that Crane may have been duped by Bones?
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The shattered pumpkin found by Ichabod's hat and the fact that Brom Bones would laugh about the situation whenever brought up.
