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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. After the wolf eats up Red Riding Hood, he is now ___________ as well as dark and hairy.
(a) Bored.
(b) Full.
(c) Fat.
(d) Guilty.

2. Which animal is smart enough to not move when the musician plays, having seen the atrocities?
(a) Horse.
(b) Snake.
(c) Bird.
(d) Snail.

3. Sexton writes that the apple has no worm in it for the apple is ___________.
(a) Diseased.
(b) Ripe.
(c) Gone.
(d) Whole.

4. A cruel father once cut off his daughter's _________ so that he could escape the wizard.
(a) Hair.
(b) Hands.
(c) Head.
(d) Feet.

5. The author admits to being collected at cocktail parties, but inside, she is undergoing ___________________.
(a) Open heart surgery.
(b) Misery.
(c) Marathons.
(d) Football games.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who scares the creatures off from trying to kill the musician when they have the chance?

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

3. The frog wants the beer and Christ for _____________, as the poem states about the needs of the frog.

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

5. The crow thinks the frog is an apple, and drops a _________ right in, according to the poem.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What will happen for the two eyed sister if she sings for the goat, according to the advice of an old woman?

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

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

10. How does the soldier get from one side of the lake to another with the princesses?

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