PUCE-Q/LEVEL SIXTH

Jazmín Aguagallo

Mateo Erazo

Fabián Carvajal

Who do the villagers believe the headless horseman is? How did he lose his head?

The villagers believe that the headless horseman is an Hessian soldier that lost his head when a cannon ball hit his head during the revolutionary war.

 What are two things that Ichabod would do to make himself useful to the farmers? How does he help the wives?

1) He helped to make hay.

2) He drove the cows from pasture.

What are the two main things that Katrina Van Tassel is known for?  What different things does she wear that demonstrate each of these?

1)   She was the beauty and smart daughter of the most successful farmer in the town.

2)   She wore the ornaments of pure gold, which her great- great grandmother.

What approach does Brom Bones (Brom Van Brunt) want to take when he discovers Ichabod is interested in Katrina? Why can’t he do that?

Brom tried to turn Ichabod into ridicule in presence of Katrina.

 What explanation is given for why there are more ghost stories in a long-settled village?

Because the population of most countries came to this town at the time that the people died and others had been displaced.

What logical explanation is there for three of the things Ichabod sees or hears when he is near the old, large tree?

1)     When Ichabod came to this tremendous tree, began to whistle. He gave the impression that it answered his whistle, but it was just a breeze through the dry branches.

2)    He thought too that saw something ghostly hanging in the center of the tree: but it was only a scar trunk caused by lightning.

3)    Then he heard a groan, but it was only two small branches that are rubbed against each other as he passed.

What does Ichabod see that makes him so terrified that he sends his horse into full flight?

Ichabod saw the headless horseman behind him and took the horse´s ridges with violence.

What makes it seem that Brom Bones knew something about what happened that night?

Some people thing that Bones knew something about Ichabod because when the event was mentioned he laughed.