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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 frog wants the beer and Christ for _____________, as the poem states about the needs of the frog.
(a) A companion.
(b) A book.
(c) A souvenir.
(d) A deer.

2. What does the ground do in the presence of a frog, since it has boil disease and a belly full of parasites?
(a) Soils itself.
(b) Hides.
(c) Cracks open.
(d) Runs away.

3. When the queen is pregnant, she is sent to live with her____________ since it was wartime.
(a) Father.
(b) Mother.
(c) Cousin.
(d) Sister.

4. What happens after the two eyed girl is taken away by the knight to whom she gives a branch of the tree?
(a) The tree burns the family house down.
(b) The other sisters can't see anymore.
(c) The two eyed girl grows another eye.
(d) The tree vanishes.

5. What does Hansel take with him as he hears that his parents are going to lose them in the forest?
(a) Pebbles.
(b) Grass.
(c) Bread.
(d) Pollen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What size is the diamond that the soldier brings back to offer as proof to the king?

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

3. Where does the golden ball go when the princess accidentally loses it in the poem?

4. Once a child who was born with troubles had a mother who wore her ___________ like a strand of pearls, even though the child might have lived to be 50 years old.

5. The tables at the dance are filled with cruets of __________ and cups full of rubies.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the prize for the person who is able to find out how the girls are escaping from the room each night?

2. Why does the maiden have to stay at home during the war in which her husband fights?

3. What happens to the king after several long years of searching for his family?

4. Who are some of the deceivers which Sexton includes in the beginning of the poem about Red Riding Hood?

5. Why don't the animals in the story of the musician take revenge on the musician?

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

7. Who are Sexton's judge and jury when she begins the poem, "The Frog Prince?"

8. Where do the princesses sleep when they are locked in their room each night?

9. What is the problem with the tree which the knight sees and then wants to have one of its branches?

10. Why are the messages being sent between the king and the princess getting mixed up in the story?

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