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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator says in "A Note About Witches" that ghouls and barghests are always what?
(a) Men.
(b) Elderly.
(c) Women.
(d) Children.

2. What is every woman in the room wearing in "The Meeting"?
(a) Gloves.
(b) Aprons.
(c) Capes.
(d) Spiked heels.

3. What happened to the third child that the grandmother knew who was taken by witches?
(a) She turned into stone.
(b) She turned into a frog.
(c) She turned into a chicken.
(d) She turned into a porpoise.

4. Who was the first child that the narrator's grandmother knew who was taken by the witches?
(a) Solveg Christiansen.
(b) Ranghild Hansen Ranghild.
(c) Lief.
(d) Birgit Svenson.

5. What is the first thing that the Grand High Witch tells her subjects to remove in "Frizzled Like a Fritter"?
(a) Their hats.
(b) Their gloves.
(c) Their shoes.
(d) Their masks.

6. How long does the transformation last that is caused by "Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker"?
(a) 36 seconds.
(b) 26 seconds.
(c) Two minutes.
(d) 10 seconds.

7. What does the Grand High Witch's audience do after her song in "The Recipe"?
(a) They run from the room.
(b) They burst into tears.
(c) They clap and shout.
(d) They sit silently.

8. How are the houses described that "real witches" live in, in "A Note About Witches"?
(a) All-black.
(b) Spooky.
(c) Ordinary.
(d) Castles.

9. What does the narrator consider to be his only hope in "The Recipe"?
(a) The fact that Bruno is with him.
(b) The fact that he has his mice with him.
(c) The fact that he is wearing a costume.
(d) The fact that he has not bathed for days.

10. What happened to the fifth child the grandmother describes who was taken by witches?
(a) He turned into a chicken.
(b) He turned into a frog.
(c) He turned into stone.
(d) He turned into a porpoise.

11. What is the name of the narrator's male pet mouse?
(a) Lief.
(b) Paul.
(c) William.
(d) Bruno.

12. What is the name of the narrator's female pet mouse?
(a) Topsy.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Mary.
(d) Anna.

13. What literary device is used in the following sentence from "A Note About Witches": "Then the witch stalks the wretched child like a hunter stalking a little bird in the forest"?
(a) Literary allusion.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Simile.
(d) Metaphor.

14. What is the name of the fourth child that the narrator's grandmother knows of who was taken by witches?
(a) Bruno Jenkins.
(b) Lief.
(c) Ranghild Hansen Ranghild.
(d) Harold.

15. 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"?
(a) Literary allusion.
(b) Assonance.
(c) Consonance.
(d) Alliteration.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Grand High Witch say she will do to the narrator when she sniffs him out in "The Recipe"?

2. Who is the third child that the narrator's grandmother knows of who was taken by witches?

3. Where does the narrator say his father owned a business in "My Grandmother"?

4. What is the second thing the Grand High Witch tells her subjects to remove in "Frizzled Like a Fritter"?

5. What does the Grand High Witch describe children as smelling like in "Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker"?

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