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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is the story’s setting?
A Midwestern frontier pine forest, circa 1608
The New Orleans, Louisiana, riverfront, circa 1680
A forest near Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1727
A pond deep in the Maine forest, circa 1850
- 2. Multiple Choice
Tom Walker might best be described as
having been beaten down by bad luck
basically kind but misunderstood
crafty but very lazy
stingy and cruel but courageous
- 3. Multiple Choice
Tom Walker’s wife is best described as
very generous and much loved by her neighbors
kind toward her husband, but cruel to others
yearning for companionship
a fierce shrew, always nagging and yelling
- 4. Multiple Choice
In this story the woods are used to symbolize —
evil
goodness
isolation
greed
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which of the following phrases is an example of Irving’s use of humor?
“Tom consoled himself for the loss of his property, with the loss of his wife, for he was a man of fortitude.”
“He knows how to play his cards when pretty sure of his game.”
“He insisted that the money found through his means should be employed in his service.”
“ ‘You shall extort bonds, foreclose mortgages, drive the merchants to bankruptcy—.’ ”
- 6. Multiple Choice
What does Irving use to symbolize hypocrisy and hidden evil?
The devil’s deal with Tom
Mrs. Walker’s heart and liver, wrapped in the checked apron
The flourishing trees that are rotten to the core
The Walkers’ silver teapots and spoons
- 7. Multiple Choice
What enabled you to predict that the figure that appears to Tom in the forest is the devil?
He appears when Tom kicks the skull.
He has large red eyes.
He has a hoarse, growling voice.
Tom is instantly frightened.
- 8. Multiple Choice
Tom’s wife decides to go into the forest because she —
wants to escape from Tom’s unkindness
decides to make her own deal with the devil
gets lost on her way to the market
wants to pick some herbs and wild mushrooms for their meager meal
- 9. Multiple Choice
How does Tom die?
The people he has cheated rise up against him.
He falls off his horse and gets trampled.
The devil is tricked by his own words.
He is killed by Native Americans.
- 10. Multiple Choice
What happens to Tom Walker’s money at the end of the story?
It is given to the townspeople.
The townspeople seize it.
It goes to Mrs. Walker.
It turns into cinders and ashes.
- 11. Multiple Choice
What feeling about the setting does Irving want to arouse?
fear
optimism
anger
hope
- 12. Multiple Choice
Which item best contributes to the story’s mood?
“The swamp was thickly grown with great gloomy pines and hemlocks . . . which made it dark at noonday. . .”
“. . . stepping from tuft to tuft of rushes and roots . . .”
“At length he arrived at a firm piece of ground, which ran like a peninsula into the deep bosom of the swamp.”
“Nothing remained of the old Indian fort but a few embankments, gradually sinking to the level of the surrounding earth.”
- 13. Multiple Choice
“The Devil and Tom Walker” is based on the archetype of a person who —
is unhappy in marriage
lives in New England
sells his soul to the devil
hunts for treasure
- 14. Multiple Choice
Like Tom Walker, no doubt you weren’t surprised by the appearance of the devil. You were prepared because you knew that Tom —
had read or heard about other people meeting with the devil
had met the devil before
is the kind of man who is not surprised by anything
took the shortcut in order to meet the devil
- 15. Multiple Choice
prevalent means...
sad; gloomy
incapable of being captured
widely existing
uncertain
- 16. Multiple Choice
stagnant means
not flowing or moving
uncertain
widely existing
incapable of being captured
- 17. Multiple Choice
precarious means
widely existing
uncertain
sad; gloomy
not flowing or moving
- 18. Multiple Choice
impregnable means
incapable of being captured or entered by force
widely existing
sad; gloomy
not flowing or moving
- 19. Multiple Choice
melancholy means
sad; gloomy
uncertain
widely existing
incapable of being captured
- 20. Multiple Choice
Which of the following could be used as a topic for theme?
Greed
Religion & hypocrisy
Everlasting Love
Usury
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