Comprehension Questions 1
The way TarryTown got its name.
What is the husbands would often tarry at the village taverns on market days?
The ghostly specter that haunts the town of Sleepy Hollow.
Who is the Headless Horseman?
The place that Ichabod Crane lives.
Where is one of the farm houses?
The definition of Gothic Literature.
What is writing that employs dark and picturesque scenery, startling and melodramatic narrative devices, and an overall atmosphere of exoticism, mystery, fear, and dread?
This is the "Marxist" interpretation.
What is a reading of the text as an expression of contemporary class struggle?
The way Sleepy Hollow got its name.
What is the town is dreamy and eerie and this seems to have an affect on the its people?
This is what the people of Sleepy Hollow believe about who the Headless Horseman is.
Who is a Hessian soldier who fought in the American Revolution?
The reason Ichabod Crane needs to be able to have all of his belongings in a small bundle.
What is because he travels a lot?
The genre of literature that the subgenre of Gothic literature came from.
What is Romantic literature?
The definition of "determinism" as it relates to Marxist literary theory.
What is Marx theorized that human beings are the product of their social and economic environment?
These are the occupations of Ichabod Crane.
What is a school teacher and choirmaster?
This is why the Headless Horseman comes out at night.
What is to search near his resting place for his head that was blown off by a cannonball?
The two things Brom Bones does to get back at Ichabod for trying to steal Katrina.
What is to plug up the chimney of his singing school so that it fills with smoke and make fun of him in front of Katrina?
This is what a Gothic novel or story will usually revolve around.
What is a large, ancient house that conceals a terrible secret or serves as the refuge of an especially frightening and threatening character?
Literature is not simply a matter of personal expression or taste. It is something else.
What is it somehow relates to the social and political conditions of the time?
The subjects that Ichabod Crane likes to read about.
What is witchcraft and the history of the area?
This is the explanation as to why there are more ghost stories in a long-settled town.
What is there is more opportunity for people who live in a long-settled place for a long time to pass on the ghost stories to each other by word of mouth?
The logical explanations for the three things he sees or hears when he is near the old tree.
What is he hears groaning, but it's twigs rubbing together. He sees eyes, but it's just glow bugs/fireflies.
He sees a ghost, but its a lightning strike on a tree?
The traits that Gothic literature borrows from the genre it comes from.
What is supernatural elements, touches of romance, well-known historical characters, and travel and adventure narratives to entertain their readers?
What Marx called the economic conditions of life and what it included.
What is the base or infrastructure that includes everything from technology and raw materials to the social organization of the workplace?
The two main things that Katrina Von Tassel is known for.
What is she is beautiful and will eventually inherit a vast amount of money making her rich?
The story that Brom Bones tells about his encounter with the headless horseman.
What is that he was winning the race and the headless horseman disappears?
The thing that happens when Ichabod slows down or speeds up in an attempt to get away from the dark horse and its rider (Headless Horseman) and the thing that Ichabod sees that makes him so terrified that he sends his horse into full flight.
What is when Ichabod slows down or speeds up the headless horseman follows him and Ichabod sees the head of the Headless Horseman on his horse?
The first mention of "Gothic," as pertaining to literature, was in the subtitle of Horace Walpole's 1765 story "The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story". This is what it was intended to mean.
What is it meant something like ‘barbarous,’ as well as ‘deriving from the Middle Ages?"
What Marx said and thought about literature and its function in a economical society.
What is propaganda for the ruling class to keep the lower class poor and the ruling class rich?