The Devil and Tom Walker

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The Devil and Tom Walker

• By Washington Irving

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Please select a Team.

1. Blonde Hair
2. Red Hair
3. Brown Hair
4. Black Hair

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What is the storys setting?

1. A Midwestern frontier pine forest, circa 1608
2. The New Orleans, Louisiana, riverfront, circa
   1680
3. A forest near Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1727
4. A pond deep in the Maine forest, circa 1850

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Tom Walker might best be described as

1. having been beaten down by bad luck
2. basically kind but misunderstood
3. crafty but very lazy
4. stingy and cruel but courageous

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Tom Walkers wife is best described as

1. very generous and much loved by her neighbors
2. kind toward her husband, but cruel to others
3. yearning for companionship
4. fierce shrew, always nagging and yelling

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In this story the woods are used to symbolize

1. evil
2. goodness
3. isolation
4. greed

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Which of the following phrases is an example of
Irvings use of humor?

1. Tom consoled himself for the loss of his
   property, with the loss of his wife, for he was a
   man of fortitude.
2. He knows how to play his cards when pretty sure
   of his game.
3. He insisted that the money found through his
   means should be employed in his service.
4. You shall extort bonds, foreclose mortgages,
   drive the merchants to bankruptcy.

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What does Irving use to symbolize hypocrisy and
hidden evil?

1. The devils deal with Tom
2. Mrs. Walkers heart and liver, wrapped in the
   checked apron
3. The flourishing trees that are rotten to the core
4. The Walkers silver teapots and spoons

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What enabled you to predict that the figure that
appears to Tom in the forest is the devil?

1. He appears when Tom kicks the skull.
2. He has large red eyes.
3. He has a hoarse, growling voice.
4. Tom is instantly frightened.

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Toms wife decides to go into the forest because
she

1. wants to escape from Toms unkindness
2. decides to make her own deal with the devil
3. gets lost on her way to the market
4. wants to pick some herbs and wild mushrooms for
   their meager meal

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How does Tom die?

1. The people he has cheated rise up against him.
2. He falls off his horse and gets trampled.
3. The devil is tricked by his own words.
4. He is killed by Native Americans.

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What happens to Tom Walkers money at the end of
the story?

1. It is given to the townspeople.
2. The townspeople seize it.
3. It goes to Mrs. Walker.
4. It turns into cinders and ashes.

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What feeling about the setting does Irving want
to arouse?

1. fear
2. optimism
3. anger
4. hope

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Which item best contributes to the storys mood?

1. The swamp was thickly grown with great gloomy
   pines and hemlocks . . . which made it dark at
   noonday. . .
2. . . . stepping from tuft to tuft of rushes and
   roots . . .
3. At length he arrived at a firm piece of ground,
   which ran like a peninsula into the deep bosom of
   the swamp.
4. Nothing remained of the old Indian fort but a
   few embankments, gradually sinking to the level
   of the surrounding earth.

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The Devil and Tom Walker is based on the
archetype of a person who

1. is unhappy in marriage
2. lives in New England
3. sells his soul to the devil
4. hunts for treasure

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Like Tom Walker, no doubt you werent surprised
by the appearance of the devil. You were prepared
because you knew that Tom

1. had read or heard about other people meeting with
   the devil
2. had met the devil before
3. is the kind of man who is not surprised by
   anything
4. took the shortcut in order to meet the devil

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