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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do wolves fare in winter?

2. What do the children of the sparse villages near the forest always carry?

3. What do some ogres in the woods purportedly do?

4. When do wolves' eyes gleam green?

5. Why is the wolf the worst thing you can run into in the forest?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the man who vanishes on his wedding night after going outside to urinate?

2. What do the children of the villages around the forest always carry with them, and why?

3. What does the second husband do after the ordeal with the wife's first husband in Part I?

4. What is Carter referring to when she writes of "an aria of fear made audible" (141)?

5. What does the hunter discover about the wolf he slays in the pit in Part I?

6. Why does the witch turn all of a wedding party into wolves?

7. What sense of the forest does Carter build in Part I?

8. What are some of the basic characteristics of wolves that Carter lays out in Part I?

9. Why should people "fear and flee" the wolf above all, according to Carter (142)?

10. How does Carter describe the night of the solstice?

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