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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What is worst of all about wolves?

5. When do wolves' eyes gleam green?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Carter portray different werewolves in this story, and what are some lessons or patterns the reader can draw from her representations of them? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

How does Carter describe the forest in the different scenarios and tales in this story, and how can the forest change in different circumstances? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

What do you think Carter is trying to convey about women's lives, choices, and treatment with the young wife's story within this story? In particular, why do you think Carter writes that the second husband beats the wife after fighting off the werewolf/first husband? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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