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

2. What shines like candle flames at night in Part I?

3. What happens if you stray from the forest path, according to Carter?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How and why does the young man in the forest seduce the young girl on the way to her grandmother's house? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

How does Carter use the fantastic and supernatural throughout this story, and what kind of expectation of her use of these entities set for the reader? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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