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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "A Note About Witches" – "Summer Holidays".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator says in "My Grandmother" that his grandmother is the only grandmother he ever met that does what?
(a) Drives a car.
(b) Drinks Scotch.
(c) Smokes cigars.
(d) Eats olives.

2. Where is the narrator's grandmother from?
(a) England.
(b) Germany.
(c) Norway.
(d) France.

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

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator's grandmother say American witches are capable of making grown-ups do in "The Grand High Witch"?

2. What does a "real witch" spend all her time plotting, according to the narrator in "A Note About Witches"?

3. How many encounters with witches does the narrator describe having before he was eight years old in "My Grandmother"?

4. What is the name of the fifth child that the narrator's grandmother knows of who was taken by witches?

5. What is the man carrying when he comes to the narrator's grandmother's house in "The Grand High Witch"?

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