Devil and Tom Walker pages 236 – 245

Answer each question with a complete sentence.

1. What does the description of their house and horse indicate about the Walkers?

2. Describe briefly Tom Walker’s first encounter with the devil.

3. Why doesn’t Tom fear the devil when he meets him?

4. What happens to Tom’s wife?

5. What is the agreement that Tom Walker ultimately makes with the devil?

6. What is one thing that Tom Walker won’t do with the money that the devil wants him to do?

7. As Tom grows older, he becomes loudly religious. Washington Irving seems to be saying that we need to be careful of loudly religious people because they seem to have something to hide. Do you agree?

8. Do you feel that Tom Walker deserves his fate?

9. What is the lesson Irving wants his readers to learn from this story?

10. Tom Walker sells his soul for money. Would you feel more sympathetic for him if he sold his soul for knowledge?

11. Many professional athletes sell their future health by taking steroids, which helps them make it to the pros, for an immediate monetary gain in sports. Is this a fair trade off? Would you trade 10 years of your life for money?