The Company of Wolves: Short Story Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

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The Company of Wolves: Short Story Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 48 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 the one beat that howls in the woods by night?
(a) A wolf.
(b) A bear.
(c) A lion.
(d) A moose.

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

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

4. What does one of the devil's ointments apparently do as soon as it is rubbed on?
(a) Give one a lot of money.
(b) Turn one into a wolf.
(c) Give one a fantastic whistle.
(d) Make one be able to see the future.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who helps search for the first husband?

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

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

5. What do the wolves have ways of arriving at?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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