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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Meeting" – "The Recipe".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Grand High Witch say never happens to witches in "The Recipe"?
(a) They are never married.
(b) They are never caught.
(c) They are never killed.
(d) They are never deceived.

2. Where did the second child that the narrator's grandmother knows of who was taken by witches end up?
(a) In a bird sanctuary.
(b) As a statue.
(c) In a mouse-trap.
(d) In a painting.

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

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

5. What word from "The Recipe" means smug or braggartly?
(a) Amicable.
(b) Gloating.
(c) Lacrimose.
(d) Daring.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. About how old was the first of the children that was taken by the witches that the narrator's grandmother knew?

3. 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"?

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

5. How many trunks of counterfeit money does the Grand High Witch say she has brought with her in "Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker"?

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