"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" - Part 3 Review

Question 1

After Ichabod passed the tulip tree, what “new perils” awaited him?

Answer 1

• A brook that laid across the road
• Wiley’s Swamp
• A few logs served as the bridge across the brook

Question 2

What was significant about Wiley’s Swamp and the log bridge?

Answer 2

This was exactly where Major Andre was captured.

Question 3

How are Wiley’s Swamp and the log bridge regarded by the townspeople?

Answer 3

Severely haunted and frightening.

Question 4

Ichabod kicked his horse in the ribs, ordering him to cross the log bridge. What did the horse do instead?

Answer 4

Jerked to the side, and ran alongside the fence.

Question 5

Ichabod tried to kick his horse again, but what happened then?

Answer 5

The steed was plunged into the opposite side of the road into a thicket of bushes and shrubbery.

Question 6

Ichabod then kicked and whipped Gunpowder, and then what did the horse do?

Answer 6

Dashed forward, sniffling and snorting, but stopped at the edge of the “bridge.”

Question 7

What are all the delays of the horse doing to Ichabod mentally?

Answer 7

Making him even more nervous and terrified of the scene around him/the situation he is in.

Question 8

After the bridge ordeal, what happened that caught Ichabod’s eye/ear?

Answer 8

On the side of a brook, a large shape manifested itself and seemed to want to pounce on Ichabod.

Question 9

What did Ichabod know was useless?

Answer 9

Running away from the possible ghost, ghoul, or goblin in front of him.

Question 10

What does Ichabod say to the monster?

Answer 10

“Who are you?”

Question 11

When Ichabod received no answer, what did Ichabod begin to do?

Answer 11

Sing a psalm tune, very loudly and passionately, to try and calm himself down.

Question 12

What did the figure do when Ichabod started singing the psalm tune?

Answer 12

Stirred into motion and placed itself right in the middle of the road, blocking Ichabod’s path.

Question 13

Describe the appearance of the figure that can not totally, but somewhat, be observed?

Answer 13

• A horseman of large dimensions (strongly-built)
• A powerful black horse.

Question 14

How is Gunpowder now acting?

Answer 14

Calm and easy to control.

Question 15

Ichabod begins to quicken Gunpowder’s stride to get away from the “midnight companion,” but what happens?

Answer 15

The companion does the same, and quickens his pace. When Ichabod then slows down, in the same way, the companion also slows.

Question 16

What does Ichabod finally see of his traveling “companion”? What does this mean?

Answer 16

That his “companion” is headless; Ichabod is being hunted/haunted by the Headless Horseman!

Question 17

Where was the horseman’s head, instead of on his shoulders?

Answer 17

On his pommel (on the saddle of the horse).

Question 18

Ichabod Crane’s fear became desperation (in trying to get away from the Headless Horseman). When he kicked Gunpowder, attempting to make him move, what happened?

Answer 18

The Headless Horseman began to “jump” right along with Ichabod.

Question 19

What happened after Ichabod whipped Gunpowder?

Answer 19

Ichabod and the Headless Horseman then engaged in a great chase.

Question 20

Instead of going towards Sleepy Hollow, what did Gunpowder, who “seemed possessed with a demon,” do?

Answer 20

Turned left and went downhill.
- There was nothing Ichabod could do to stop this.

Question 21

Where did the road that Gunpowder took lead to?

Answer 21

The infamous bridge near the peaceful church with the white walls.

Question 22

What falls off of Gunpowder and almost kills Ichabod? How does Ichabod save himself?

Answer 22

The saddle; he hold on to Gunpowder’s neck.

Question 23

What temporarily worried Ichabod about the loss of the saddle?

Answer 23

The fact that is was Hans Van Ripper’s (who he borrowed the horse from) best “Sunday” saddle.

Question 24

What temporarily cheered Ichabod during his chase with the Headless Horseman?

Answer 24

Their near arrival at the Church.
- The brook that Ichabod and the Headless Horseman passed told Ichabod that he was correct about his location.

Question 25

What false hope did Ichabod have about the church? Who gave him this false hope?

Answer 25

That if Ichabod could reach the Church, the Headless Horseman would disappear, as that it what happened in Brom Bones’ tale of the Headless Horseman.

Question 26

When Gunpowder and Ichabod made it across the bridge and nearer to the Church, Ichabod looked behind him to see if the Headless Horseman would disappear. He did not. What happened instead?

Answer 26

The Headless Horseman threw his head at Ichabod; it hit Ichabod in the cranium, and he flew into the dust (on the ground), and Gunpowder continued running away.

Question 27

How was Gunpowder found the next morning?

Answer 27

Without his saddle; his bridle at his feet, eating the grass at Hans Van Ripper’s gate.

Question 28

What was strange about Ichabod the next morning for breakfast, and later on for dinner-hour?

Answer 28

Ichabod was not present; this was strange, because, remember, he LOVED food.

Question 29

The school boys did what when they arrived at the schoolhouse?

Answer 29

They looked for Ichabod, but he never arrived.

Question 30

Who was the first to be uneasy/suspicious about Ichabod’s disappearance (and the disappearance of his saddle)?

Answer 30

Hans Van Ripper

Question 31

When an inquiry was sent out for Ichabod, what was found?

Answer 31

The tracks/traces of Ichabod’s chase with the Headless Horseman.
- Near the bank of a broad part of the brook, the hat of Ichabod Crane was found, and near it was a smashed pumpkin.

Question 32

Who becomes the executor of Ichabod Crane’s estate?

Answer 32

Hans Van Ripper

Question 33

What is the first thing that Hans Van Ripper does with Ichabod’s estate?

Answer 33

Looks through his “worldly-effects.”
- The books and the furniture of the schoolhouse belong to the community, but Cotton Mather’s “History of Witchcraft,” and “New England Almanac” belong to Ichabod.

Question 34

What was in the “book of dreams and story-telling” that Ichabod possessed?

Answer 34

An attempt to make a copy of the verses for Katrina Van Tassel.

Question 35

What did Hans Van Ripper do to Ichabod’s books?

Answer 35

Burned them.

Question 36

What did Hans Van Ripper assert never to do from the time of Ichabod’s death onward?

Answer 36

Send his children to school; he claimed that no good came from reading and writing.

Question 37

Where did Ichabod’s money go? Who might have taken it, despite what the story literally says?

Answer 37

The money that Ichabod had (he probably received his pay about a day or two before he disappeared) he must have had on him at the time of his disappearance.
- Hans Van Ripper might have taken it, because he was Ichabod’s executor, and did not seem to like him very much.

Question 38

What was the mood like at the Church on Sunday?

Answer 38

Very suspicious and filled with gossip about the recent disappearance of Ichabod Crane.

Question 39

Brouwer, Bones, and others all shared their own stories, and what conclusion did the people make?

Answer 39

That Ichabod had been carried off by the Galloping Hessian (the Headless Horseman).

Question 40

What made it easy to move on from Ichabod Crane?

Answer 40

The fact that he was not married and did not have any debt.
- His school was removed to a different quarter of the hollow, and a new schoolmaster was put in his place.

Question 41

There was an old farmer that shared a new story several years after. What was his story?

Answer 41

Ichabod Crane was still alive, and merely left the neighborhood for 1) fear of Hans Van Ripper, 2) fear of the “goblin,” and 3) disappointment at being dismissed by Katrina Van Tassel.

Question 42

What was Ichabod doing later in life, according to the old farmer?

Answer 42

He remained a teacher and studied law in New York.
- He was admitted to the bar
- He became a politician
- He became active in campaigning
- He wrote for the newspapers
- He was made a justice for the Ten Pound Court

Question 43

What happened to Brom Bones several years after?

Answer 43

He married Katrina Van Tassel.

Question 44

What made Brom Bones look suspicious after the disappearance of Ichabod Crane?

Answer 44

Any time the story of Ichabod Crane was brought up, Brom Bones looked very “knowing”; he would also laugh at the mention of the smashed pumpkin.
- He obviously knew more about Ichabod Crane’s disappearance “than he chose to tell.”

Question 45

What do the old country wives have to say about Ichabod’s disappearance?

Answer 45

They believe that Ichabod was carried off by supernatural means, and Ichabod’s story is one that they like to tell at their winter evening fires.

Question 46

What eventually happened to Ichabod’s schoolhouse?

Answer 46

It was deserted and began to decay; some said that Ichabod Crane’s spirit haunted it.