Sleepy+Hollow

THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW By Washington Irving

**VOCABULARY **

**Homework“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”** __**DUE MONDAY **__ **denominated; prudently; inveterate; propensity; linger; vouch; advert; precise; authentic; stripling; exploit; Sabbath; reverberated; remnant; listless; repose; inhabitants; descendants; sequestered; glen; atmosphere; reverie; trances; abounds ****; gambols; dominant; apparition; Hessian; anon; spectre; belated; propensity; imbibed; laud; torrent; incessant; **
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**Questions ** **1. How did Tarry Town get its name? How did Sleepy Hollow get its name? ** **2. What mood does the setting of this story create? ** **3. Who do the villagers believe the headless horseman is? How did he lose his head? ** **4. What do the villagers think he is doing out at night? Why is he said to be in such a ** **hurry? ** **5. What is Ichabod Crane’s job? What other job did he do to earn a little more money? ** **6. Where does Ichabod Crane live? Why does he need to be able to have all of his ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">belongings in a small bundle? ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">7. What are two things that Ichabod would do to make himself useful to the farmers? ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">How does he help the wives? ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">8. Why do the women in the countryside think he is an important person? How do the ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">mothers treat him as a result? How do the younger girls respond to him? ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">9. What subject does Ichabod like to read about? What has increased his interest in this ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">subject? ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">10. What would happen to Ichabod when he would walk home at night after spending the ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">afternoon reading? How would he handle that? ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">11. What are the two main things that Katrina Van Tassel is known for? What different ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">things does she wear that demonstrate each of these? **

__**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">DUE TUESDAY **__ **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Vocabulary ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">mimic; sojourned; urchin; chastisement; consolatory; anaconda; onerous, ingratiating; magnanimously; vocations; shillings; psalmody; ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">pedagogue; swains; itinerant; esteemed; erudition; shrewdness; credulity; capacious; harbinger; varlet; portentous; perambulations; piqued; ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">sumptuous; chanticleer; chivalrous; enraptured; andirons; yore; coquette; labyrinth; countenance; dexterous; ascendancy; rantipole; **

**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Questions ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">12. The author, Washington Irving says, “When he entered the house, the conquest of his ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">heart was complete.” What does the rest of that paragraph on page 17 tell us about ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">why Ichabod liked Katrina? ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">13. What two things make it difficult for Ichabod to fulfill his goal of marrying Katrina? ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">14. Why would it have been crazy for Ichabod to be open about his feelings for Katrina? ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">What gives Ichabod an excuse to visit Katrina at her house? ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">15. What approach does Brom Bones (Brom Van Brunt) want to take when he discovers ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Ichabod is interested in Katrina? Why can’t he do that? ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">16. What are two things Brom Bones does to get back at Ichabod for trying to steal ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Katrina? ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">17. Ichabod takes great care in his appearance as he gets ready for the party at Baltus Van ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Tassel’s. What is funny about the horse he is riding as he starts off like a “knight in ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">quest of adventures”? ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">18. How is Brom Bone’s horse, Daredevil, similar to him in its appearance and actions? ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">19. What explanation is given for why there are more ghost stories in a long-settled ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">village? ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">20. What story is told about Brouwer’s encounter with the headless horseman? ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">21. What story does Brom Bones tell about his encounter with the headless horseman? ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">22. What mood is Ichabod in when he leaves Katrina’s house that night? What evidence ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">is there of his mood? What speculation does the author make as to what happened? **

**__<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">DUE WEDNESDAY __** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Vocabulary **

**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">uncouth; pliability; insinuating; whimsical; ferule; despotic; emancipation; domiciliated; choleric; capricious; profusion; suppositions; precipices; loitering; mynheer; contagion, arrant. **

**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Questions ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">23. What logical explanation is there for three of the things Ichabod sees or hears when ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">he is near the old, large tree? ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">29 ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">24. What happens when Ichabod tries to get across the bridge? ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">25. When Ichabod sees something huge and black by the brook, why doesn’t he turn and ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">run away? What two things does he do instead? ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">26. What happens when Ichabod slows down or speeds up in an attempt to get away from ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the dark horse and its rider? What does Ichabod see that makes him so terrified that he ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">sends his horse into full flight? ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">27. Instead of following the road to Sleepy Hollow, where does Gunpowder go? What ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">makes it even harder for Ichabod to hold onto his run-away horse? ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">28. What four traces of the chase do the searchers find the next day? ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">29. When news of Ichabod is reported years later, what do we learn about why he left? ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">30. What makes it seem that Brom Bones knew something about what happened that ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">night? ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">31. What did the people of the town believe about what happened that night? ** <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">media type="custom" key="23949020"