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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 girl had to stretch her neck out in order to eat a ________ from the tree.
(a) Banana.
(b) Apple.
(c) Pear.
(d) Grape.

2. Sexton calls the wolf a sort of ___________ at the start of the story of Red Riding Hood.
(a) Spy.
(b) Politician.
(c) Mayor.
(d) Transvestite.

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

4. The red riding hood which the character wears without fail is her _________ blanket, since she is never without it.
(a) Safety.
(b) Bed.
(c) Linus.
(d) Wool.

5. Each of the answers to #143 were worn as an old ______________, according to the story.
(a) Scarf.
(b) Book.
(c) Jockstrap.
(d) Mattress.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the mother call the son when she is hungry and starving to eat something?

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

4. Who does the prince hire to guard the bedroom at night so he and the princess can have time together?

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why does the father decide that he needs to cut off the hands of his daughter in the poem?

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

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

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

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

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