The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow Test

What is the mood of Scene 1?

• spooky
• calm
• joyful
• crazy

In Scene 4, Katrina glances slyly at Brom before accepting Ichabod’s invitation to dance. From this action, you can infer that Katrina _______.

• is worried that Brom will be angry with her for dancing with Ichabod
• likes Ichabod more than she likes Brom
• wants to make Brom jealous by dancing with Ichabod
• would rather be dancing with Brom

In Scene 4, Ida says, “Come, now. Brom is more mischievous than mean.” What does she mean?

• Brom gets into a lot of fights, but he laughs about them later.
• Brom likes to joke around, but he isn’t cruel.
• Brom is a mysterious person.
• Brom is a comedian.

A student might be ________ with a heavy backpack. (select the correct vocabulary word)

• musket
• tether
• laden
• thicket

In Scene 6, SD2 says, “On his way home that night, Ichabod, pale as a tombstone, trots along on Gunpowder.” This line contains a simile that _______.

• compares a tombstone to a hors
• tells the reader Ichabod is feeling sick after eating too many pastries
• compares Ichabod to Gunpowder
• emphasizes how scared Ichabod is

Brom: "What is the gangly grasshopper doing here?" Define gangly.

• “heavily loaded or weighed down.”

• A musket is an old-fashioned firearm that was once

  used by soldiers

• Someone who is gangly is tall and thin and moves

  in an awkward way.

• Something that is rickety is in poor physical

  condition— it’s likely to shake or even collapse.

Regan walked through a thicket of trees and pushed a few branches away. Define thicket

• is in poor physical

  condition— it’s likely to shake or even collapse.

• is a rope or a chain that is fastened to

  something, such as an animal or a balloon, in order to restrict where it can go.

• is an old-fashioned firearm that was once

  used by soldiers.

• A patch of bushes, shrubbery, or

  small trees

The mother hen watched over her brood. Define brood

• who is gangly is tall and thin and moves

  in an awkward way.

• heavily loaded or weighed down

• the action of a bird sitting on its eggs in order to hatch

  them

• s a rope or a chain that is fastened to

  something, such as an animal or a balloon, in order to restrict where it can go.

He was shot dead by a musket bullet in the retreat. Define musket

• it is a rope or a chain that is fastened to

  something, such as an animal or a balloon, in order to restrict where it can go.

• it's an old-fashioned firearm that was once

  used by soldier

• it is a rope or a chain that is fastened to

  something, such as an animal or a balloon, in order to restrict where it can go.

• none of the above

He sat alone in the dark, brooding about his future. Define brood or brooding

• it is a family of young animals, especially birds,

  born at the same time,

• heavily loaded or weighed down

• it is to think long

  and anxiously or gloomily about something—in other words, to think deeply about

  something that makes you unhappy.

• something that is out of the ordinary