1. What does the narrator's grandmother say the pupils of a witch's eye will do?
(a) Appear massive.
(b) Be white.
(c) Change colors.
(d) Be green.

2. The narrator's grandmother tells him in "My Grandmother" that she knows of no less than how many children that have disappeared and been taken by the witches?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Six.
(d) Five.

3. How many encounters with witches does the narrator describe having before he was eight years old in "My Grandmother"?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

4. What is the "motto of all witches," according to the narrator in "A Note About Witches"?
(a) "Squish them and squiggle them and make them disappear."
(b) "Hail to the Grand High Witch and may we all follow her lead."
(c) "Fly and dance and shout and sing until the day becomes the dream."
(d) "Eat them and drink them and swallow them whole."

5. Where were the narrator and his parents when they had a car accident?
(a) In the French Alps.
(b) Norht of Paris.
(c) South of London.
(d) North of Oslo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What literary device is illustrated in the following excerpt from "A Note About Witches": ". . . her mind will always be plotting and scheming and churning and burning and whizzing and phizzing"?

2. Grandma describes witches as being as bald as what in "How to Recognize a Witch"?

3. The narrator says in "My Grandmother" that his grandmother is the only grandmother he ever met that does what?

4. The narrator says in "A Note About Witches" that ghouls and barghests are always what?

5. The narrator claims in "A Note About Witches" that this story is NOT what?

(see the answer key)

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