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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the witch do to the wedding party?

3. When does the first husband vanish?

4. What happens after the hunter cuts the head and paws off the wolf?

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 sense of the forest does Carter build in Part I?

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

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

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

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

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. 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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