Characters
Setting and Events in the Story
Vocabulary
Places and Leaders
100

Rip Van Winkle's pet dog

Who is Wolf?

100

Placid rural area in New York where this story takes place

What is the Catskill Mountains?


100

It means hard to understand

What is incomprehensible?

100

The leader of the Colony of New York before Rip Van Winkle fell asleep

Who is King George III?

200

A patriarch of the village in the Catskill Mountains, owner of an inn having the initials NV

Who is Nicholas Vedder?

200

Fond of children Rip was more than happy to have the children learn this

What is flying a kite?

200

Sad oh so sad

What is melancholy?

200

The leader of New York State after Rip Van Winkle woke up

Who is George Washington?

300

The dapper, learned little man, who was a schoolmaster having the initials DVB

Who was Derrick Van Bummel?

300

The strange fellows, one of whom was carrying a keg of liquor, was dressed in this country's attire

What is Holland or the Netherlands?

300

Courteous and gallant especially to women

What is chivalrous?

300
The major river that ran near the Catskill Mountains

What is the Hudson River?

400

The mean spirited wife who constantly scolded Rip for not fixing the farm

Who is Dame Van Winkle?


400

The odd personages in old Dutch attire played this game

What is a game of nine pins?


400

Impressive beauty or dignity on a grand scale 

What is majestic?

400

The large rickety old building with great gaping windows

What is the Union Hotel by Johnathan Doolittle?

500

The main character in this story

Who is Rip Van Winkle?

500

Rip Van Winkle slept for this amount of time - when he awoke everything was so different

What is 20 years?

500

Willing to do a service or act of kindness

What is obliging?

500

The Governor of New York when the Dutch settled there

Who is Peter Stuyvesant?