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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. In order to eat, the family cooks up the ___________ to serve to each other as lamb chops.
(a) Cat.
(b) Goat.
(c) Dog.
(d) Horse.

2. What happens to the princes who are unsuccessful in finding out what happens to the daughters each night?
(a) They are banished.
(b) They are killed.
(c) They get to marry a maid.
(d) They have to be a servant.

3. How does the two eyed girl stop her sisters from asking her questions about her food?
(a) She ignores them.
(b) She hits them.
(c) She uses magic spells on them.
(d) She sings them to sleep.

4. The suburban _________ is described as a deceiver, as one who is not all that she seems to be.
(a) Maid.
(b) Librarian.
(c) Matron.
(d) Manager.

5. What did the soldier pretend to do in order to make sure the princesses thought he wasn't going to follow them?
(a) Pretended to be asleep.
(b) Looked the other way.
(c) Left.
(d) Poured out the wine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What purified the girl so much that the wizard could not approach her and hurt or help her?

2. To what does the queen give birth?

3. A cruel father once cut off his daughter's _________ so that he could escape the wizard.

4. What is NOT one of the three things the frog asks of the princess in return for getting her ball back?

5. The insomniac is the one whose heart jumps like a _____________ when they are listening on their transistor.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the two pieces of advice or help which the old woman gives to the soldier who goes to find out the secret of the princesses?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does the mother do with two of her daughters, though she tends to leave the other one alone?

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

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