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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the first husband do to the wife's child before he can be subdued?

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

5. Who helps search for the first husband?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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