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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who helps search for the first husband?

3. When does the first husband vanish?

4. What is the one beat that howls in the woods by night?

5. How does the hunter kill the wolf terrorizing the village?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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