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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 runaway boy who lives on ___________ gives it all up to live on speed and saltines.
(a) The West Virginia mountains.
(b) Boston Common.
(c) Chicago's waterway.
(d) The Michigan shoreline.

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

3. What does the princess do when the frog is in bed with her and begins to talk sweetly to her?
(a) She vomits.
(b) She throws him across the room.
(c) She leaves.
(d) She passes out.

4. With what did the huntsman fill the body of the wolf when he decided that the wolf was too mean to simply be shot?
(a) Wine.
(b) Stones.
(c) Oil.
(d) Cement.

5. On which nighttime show does the comic who commits suicide on the night before his death appear?
(a) Tonight Show.
(b) Jimmy Kimmel.
(c) Tom Snyder.
(d) Late Show.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the princes who are unsuccessful in finding out what happens to the daughters each night?

2. From where does the two eyed girl eat though this is not where her sisters eat?

3. To what does the queen give birth?

4. Red Riding Hood found the wolf, at first, to be no more dangerous than a(n) __________ or a panhandler.

5. The __________ is the one who tunes into a new neighborhood, having misplaced the past.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why does the princess agree to doing all of the things that the frog asks of her?

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