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Møte 1: Part 1

1. How much should the pursuit of wealth affect our judgment of Ichabod Crane's courtship?
2. Does Brom Van Brunt's jealousy make him easier to understand or harder to sympathize with?
3. What does the interrupted school day suggest about the balance between Ichabod Crane's work and personal interests?
4. What would you need to know before deciding whether Ichabod Crane's interest in Katrina Van Tassel is sincere?
5. How much responsibility should Ichabod Crane bear for provoking Brom Van Brunt's jealousy?
6. Would you read the invitation's disruption as comic, troubling, or both?
7. What choices seem open to Brom Van Brunt in response to his jealousy?
8. How might the courtship look different if we focused on Katrina Van Tassel's interests rather than Ichabod Crane's?

Møte 2: Part 2

9. Does a story need to be true to be worth telling?
10. Is the serious listener's request for a moral fair to the storyteller?
11. Does the storyteller's questioning of his own tale increase your trust in him or weaken it?
12. How does the listener's challenge change the way you read Ichabod Crane's courtship?
13. What might the serious listener hope to gain by asking for a moral?
14. Would a clear moral settle the listener's doubts about truth, or are those separate concerns?
15. What moral, if any, would you draw from the link between Ichabod Crane's courtship and Brom Van Brunt's jealousy?

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