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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 3 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is worst of all about wolves?
(a) They may be witches.
(b) They may be foreigners.
(c) They may be more than they seem.
(d) They may be smart.

2. What shines like candle flames at night in Part I?
(a) Wolves' eyes.
(b) Wolves' souls.
(c) Stars.
(d) Forest fires.

3. What does the witch do to the wedding party?
(a) Eats them.
(b) Casts sleeping spells on them.
(c) Turns them to wolves.
(d) Drowns them.

4. How does the hunter kill the wolf terrorizing the village?
(a) By using a young child as bait.
(b) By using a bear.
(c) By shooting it from the mountain.
(d) In a pit trap.

5. What happens after the hunter cuts the head and paws off the wolf?
(a) He turns into a man.
(b) He disappears.
(c) Other wolves come to eat the hunter.
(d) He puts himself back together to eat the hunter.

6. What is the one beat that howls in the woods by night?
(a) A moose.
(b) A wolf.
(c) A lion.
(d) A bear.

7. What do the children of the sparse villages near the forest always carry?
(a) Whistles.
(b) Dog treats.
(c) Knives.
(d) Radios.

8. What do some ogres in the woods purportedly do?
(a) Dance with devils.
(b) Eat wolves.
(c) Grill babies upon gridirons.
(d) Read poetry.

9. What happens if you stray from the forest path, according to Carter?
(a) You will fall into a fairytale.
(b) You will get lost.
(c) You will drown in the river.
(d) The wolves will eat you.

10. How do wolves fare in winter?
(a) They thrive.
(b) They do better than in spring, but worse than in summer.
(c) They do better than in summer, but worse than in fall.
(d) They are close to starving.

11. When does the first husband vanish?
(a) His wedding night.
(b) The first day of summer.
(c) The fall equinox.
(d) Thanksgiving night.

12. What does the first husband do to the wife's child before he can be subdued?
(a) The first husband sings the child a song before he can be subdued.
(b) The first husband bites the child's arm before he can be subdued.
(c) The first husband tears off the child's foot before he can be subdued.
(d) The first husband kills the child before he can be subdued.

13. When do wolves' eyes gleam green?
(a) During the aurora borealis.
(b) When they reflect moonlight.
(c) During summer.
(d) If they are by a green lake.

14. Why is the wolf the worst thing you can run into in the forest?
(a) He cannot listen to reason.
(b) He is the hungriest.
(c) He is the saddest.
(d) He is the smartest.

15. What do the wolves have ways of arriving at?
(a) Bus stations.
(b) Roads.
(c) Strange conclusions.
(d) Your own hearthside.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who helps search for the first husband?

2. How does Carter describe wolves' songs in unison?

3. What does one of the devil's ointments apparently do as soon as it is rubbed on?

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