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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. When do wolves' eyes gleam green?
(a) When they reflect moonlight.
(b) If they are by a green lake.
(c) During the aurora borealis.
(d) During summer.

2. What is the one beat that howls in the woods by night?
(a) A moose.
(b) A bear.
(c) A lion.
(d) A wolf.

3. What do some ogres in the woods purportedly do?
(a) Grill babies upon gridirons.
(b) Read poetry.
(c) Dance with devils.
(d) Eat wolves.

4. What happens if you stray from the forest path, according to Carter?
(a) You will fall into a fairytale.
(b) You will drown in the river.
(c) You will get lost.
(d) The wolves will eat you.

5. How does the hunter kill the wolf terrorizing the village?
(a) In a pit trap.
(b) By using a bear.
(c) By using a young child as bait.
(d) By shooting it from the mountain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the first husband do to the wife's child before he can be subdued?

2. What do the children of the sparse villages near the forest always carry?

3. What do the wolves have ways of arriving at?

4. Who helps search for the first husband?

5. What does the witch do to the wedding party?

Short Essay Questions

1. What sense of the forest does Carter build in Part I?

2. How does Carter describe the night of the solstice?

3. Why does the witch turn all of a wedding party into wolves?

4. What is Carter referring to when she writes of "an aria of fear made audible" (141)?

5. What do the children of the villages around the forest always carry with them, and why?

6. What does the hunter discover about the wolf he slays in the pit in Part I?

7. What are some of the basic characteristics of wolves that Carter lays out in Part I?

8. Why should people "fear and flee" the wolf above all, according to Carter (142)?

9. What happens to the man who vanishes on his wedding night after going outside to urinate?

10. What does the second husband do after the ordeal with the wife's first husband in Part I?

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