Lycanthrope questions

• Evaluator 1

  1.

  What is the narrator's name?

  2.

  While they waited for the book to arrive, they did research at what library?

  3.

  Where did they hold the ritual?

  4.

  Why was Ed so determined to go through with the ritual?

  5.

  What key factor(s) determined what the ritual participant would turn into?

• Evaluator 2

  1.

  What is lycanthropy? What is necromancy?

  2.

  How did the letter ordering the book get into the mail?

  3.

  What is "State U."?

  4.

  What does it mean to gleam fitfully?

  5.

  What happened to Ed after he drank the evil-smelling liquid.

  6.

  If Ed might have turned into any of a number of creatures, why did he turn into a car?

  7.

  Does this story take place in America or in Europe?

  8.

  Is the narrator named Ed or Norm?

  9.

  Who was going to pay for the book if the spells worked? Why?

• Evaluator 3

  1.

  What is the meaning of ``lycanthropy'' ?

  2.

  What deal to they (the characters) strike?

  3.

  Why is Norm fearful about doing the ritual?

  4.

  What happened to Ed?

  5.

  What's the major destructive force of the times in the story?

  6.

  How does the author build suspense?

• Evaluator 4

  1.

  According to Ed, the kind of animal that resulted from lycanthropy depended upon what?

  2.

  While waiting for the book to arrive, the narrator read up on subjects related to the book. What was one of these?

  3.

  What is lycanthropy?

  4.

  Name three types of information that the book gives the narrator.

  5.

  Why is the narrator not afraid to try the spell on himself?

  6.

  What forms were the spell designed to turn people into?

  7.

  What does Ed turn into?