Answer:
The type of activities Rip Van Winkle most enjoyed is:
B. Hunting, fishing, and village events.
Explanation:
Rip Van Winkle is a character in the story "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving. Winkle is a kind-hearted man who is constantly nagged by his wife, who is described as a typical shrew. Winkle is loved by the other villagers. Kids follow him around, hoping he will tell them a story. Women see in him a helpful and strong man who is willing to do chores that their own husbands won't. However, Winkle does not enjoy working on his own farm - maybe that is the true reason why his wife is so upset. He'd rather go hunting, fishing, or simply stay idle all day at the village with other lazy men at the inn's door.
Having the information above and the excerpt below as evidence, we can safely choose letter B as our answer. Winkle enjoys hunting, fishing, and village events:
<em>The great error in Rip’s composition was an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labor. It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar’s lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps, and up hill and down dale, to shoot a few squirrels or wild pigeons. He would never refuse to assist a neighbor even in the roughest toil, and was a foremost man at all country frolics for husking Indian corn, or building stone-fences; the women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands, and to do such little odd jobs as their less obliging husbands would not do for them. In a word Rip was ready to attend to anybody’s business but his own; but as to doing family duty, and keeping his farm in order, he found it impossible.</em>
