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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. What does a "real witch" spend all her time plotting, according to the narrator in "A Note About Witches"?
(a) How to rise to the throne of the Grand High Witch.
(b) How to get rid of the children in her territory.
(c) How to obtain magical potions.
(d) How to get rid of all the adults in her territory.

2. What gives off the most ghastly stench to a witch, according to the narrator's grandmother in "How to Recognize a Witch"?
(a) A cat.
(b) A dirty child.
(c) A mouse.
(d) A clean child.

3. What does the narrator's grandmother say American witches are capable of making grown-ups do in "The Grand High Witch"?
(a) Eat their own children.
(b) Turn to stone.
(c) Drive off of bridges.
(d) Sell their children to witches.

4. What does the Grand High Witch say she will do to the narrator when she sniffs him out in "The Recipe"?
(a) Turn him into a porpoise.
(b) Turn him into a mackerel.
(c) Turn him into stone.
(d) Turn him into a toad.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About how tall is the woman on the platform described in "Frizzled Like a Fritter"?

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

3. Approximately how many "real witches" exist in England today, according to the narrator in "A Note About Witches"?

4. What is notable about a witch's feet, according to the narrator's grandmother in "How to Recognize a Witch"?

5. How old was the fifth child that the narrator's grandmother knows of when he was taken by witches?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator come to live with his grandmother?

2. Why do the narrator and his grandmother return to England in "The Grand High Witch"? Where do they live?

3. How is the Grand High Witch's face described when she takes off her mask?

4. What are the narrator's initial impressions of the women who enter the Banquet hall in "The Meeting"?

5. Why does the Grand High Witch tell her subjects to quit their jobs when they return home in "Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker"?

6. Where do the narrator and his grandmother go in "Summer Holidays"? Why?

7. Why is the narrator in the Banquet hall when the women begin their meeting?

8. How is the woman who leads the meeting described when she first steps up to the podium in "Frizzled like a Fritter"?

9. Why does the Grand High Witch express anger at her subjects at the meeting in "Frizzled like a Fritter"?

10. What happens to the witch who questions the Grand High Witch in "Frizzled like a Fritter"?

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