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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. The suburban _________ is described as a deceiver, as one who is not all that she seems to be.
(a) Matron.
(b) Maid.
(c) Librarian.
(d) Manager.

2. The insomniac is the one whose heart jumps like a _____________ when they are listening on their transistor.
(a) June bug.
(b) Jumping bean.
(c) Grasshopper.
(d) Cricket.

3. On what did the princesses have to knock to get to the new world where they can dance?
(a) The drawer.
(b) The wall.
(c) The bed.
(d) The curtain.

4. Red Riding Hood found the wolf, at first, to be no more dangerous than a(n) __________ or a panhandler.
(a) Book.
(b) Streetcar.
(c) Stone.
(d) Elevator.

5. Who scares the creatures off from trying to kill the musician when they have the chance?
(a) Woodcutter.
(b) Old Woman.
(c) Magician.
(d) No one.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the old Jenny put her life savings before she is swindled by others?

2. The girl had to stretch her neck out in order to eat a ________ from the tree.

3. The oldest sister's dress was stepped on by the soldier, but she dismisses it, thinking it was __________.

4. When the two were married, they decided to live on a _______________.

5. The old woman gives the soldier a ____________________ which should be used at the right time, she tells him.

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are some of the people whom Anne Sexton believes would understand the princess' obsession with dancing?

2. What is the passageway to the world where the princesses dance all night?

3. What is the mystery of the twelve princesses who are locked in their room each night?

4. What does the mother do with two of her daughters, though she tends to leave the other one alone?

5. What happens when the mother and remaining sisters decide to slaughter the goat?

6. What are the three animals to which the musician beckons in the forest before torturing them?

7. How does Sexton herself see frogs as she eloquently describes in the poem?

8. What is the proof the soldier offers to the king in order to show that he has solved the mystery?

9. What is so remarkable about the house Hansel and Gretel find in the woods?

10. What happens after the woodsman takes care of the wolf who tried to eat Red Riding Hood and her grandmother?

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