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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. 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) Pollen.
(d) Bread.

2. The princess chokes as she eats, as though she were eating a small ___________.
(a) Cat.
(b) Puppy.
(c) Fish.
(d) Frog.

3. One might say that the girl without those body parts was a girl without _____________.
(a) Friends.
(b) Needs.
(c) Resources.
(d) Hope.

4. What does the mother call the son when she is hungry and starving to eat something?
(a) Little plum.
(b) Little pig.
(c) Little roast.
(d) My hungry boy.

5. What does the king have made for his new wife since she does not have any of her own?
(a) Silver hairs.
(b) A new mouth.
(c) Silver feet.
(d) A wig.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sexton asks if it's possible that a person would marry a cripple out of ___________.

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

3. When the queen is pregnant, she is sent to live with her____________ since it was wartime.

4. After the wolf eats up Red Riding Hood, he is now ___________ as well as dark and hairy.

5. The author's mom reproaches her for losing her ___________ when they are in Cape Ann.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the reader find out about the accident the princess has with the gold ball?

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

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

6. Why does the princess have to keep her promises to the frog?

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

8. What does the wolf learn from the girl the first time they talk, since she is not afraid of him at all.

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

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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