8th Grade C2 Passage 2

How does the play reinterpret the setting of Irving's original story?

• The play changes subtle aspects of the setting, like calling the village Tarry Town, but preserves the rest of the setting.

• The play emphasizes the quiet, peaceful characteristics of the setting that may have been too subtle in Irving's version.

• The play ignores Irving's inclusions of horror and focuses instead of how cheerful and inviting Tarry Town was for Crane.

• The play heightens Irving's understated horror elements by opening with "foreboding music," then quickly switching to friendly town life.

The play creates foreshadowing by...

• having the narrators finish each other's sentences

• showing the conversation between Sleepy Hollow Boy and Van Tassel

• displaying the headless Horesman and then immediately introducing Ichabod Crane

• allowing one of the narrators to be named Irving and another to be Washington

How does the play emphasize Crane as a traditional outsider character?

• First, the narrators descrive how Crane came to the town, then he clumsily walks on stage.

• First, other characters talk negatively about Crane, then the narrator's talk about him as he awkward attempts to fix his appearance.

• First, the narrators introduce the town itself, then characters discuss their lives, and finally Crane is introduced.

• First, other characters seem confused about who Crane is, then Crane appears and cannot seem to get the narrators' attention.

Which attitude or belief of the townspeople is revealed in the play but not the story?

• They do not work very hard.

• They believe in ghosts and witches.

• They do not value reading and writing.

• They admire almost anyone or anything from Connecticut.

Which of the following BEST compares Ichabod Crane as portrayed in the play and in the story?

• The stage directions in the play suggest that Crane thinks he is better than everyone else. The short story portrays Crane as sympathetic and a little pathetic.

• The narrators of the play do not fully characterize Crane. The narrator of the short story creates a detailed picture of Crane's physical and personal characteristics.

• The play suggests that Crane is welcomed into the town. The short story portrays Crane as more of an outsider.

• Both the play and the story characterize Crane in basically the same way.

How does the play recreate the mood of supernatural suspense that the short story establishes in paragraphs 2 and 3?

• through the narrators' choppy and alternating dialogue, which uses most of Irving's original words

• through the "AT RISE" music and visual stage effects, which create a more dramatic obvious horror mood than the story

• through the actions of the characters on stage, which heightens the movement and personality of Sleepy Hollow

• through the humorous dialogue between the Sleepy Hollow Boy and Van Tassel, which illustrates the views in Sleepy Hollow