What contrast marks Rip's behavior before his disappearance?
Why does Dame Van Winkle scold Rip?
Who accompanies Rip on his mountain walks?
Where does Rip encounter the stranger carrying liquor?
What is the stranger carrying?
What does the stranger direct Rip to do?
What game are the mysterious mountain players playing?
What does Rip do before falling asleep?
How long is Rip absent?
What does Rip discover when he wakes?
What has happened to the mountain path when Rip wakes?
What does Rip find on returning to the village?
Who explains Dame Van Winkle's death to Rip?
How does Judith restore Rip's place in the family?
Who recognizes Rip and helps establish his identity?
What supports Peter's acceptance of Rip's account?
Whose returning crew does Peter link to the mountain players?
What habits does Rip resume after his return?
How does Rip respond to political independence?
Who disrupts Rip's refuge among the village idlers?
Whose notebook supplies the postscript's travel notes?
What do the mountain spirits govern in the postscript?
What does the mother spirit manage?
What determines whether the mother spirit sends rain or storms?
How does Manitou disguise himself?
Where does Manitou lead hunters?
What does the lost hunter steal?
What happens when water escapes from the stolen gourd?
Which place's origin does the hunter's story explain?
Where does the stream released from the gourd flow?
