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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. 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 frog.
(c) She turned into a porpoise.
(d) She turned into stone.

2. Grandma describes witches as being as bald as what in "How to Recognize a Witch"?
(a) A cucumber.
(b) A baby.
(c) An old man.
(d) A boiled egg.

3. Approximately how many children does a "real witch" kill each year, according to the narrator in "A Note About Witches"?
(a) 68.
(b) 52.
(c) 25.
(d) 10.

4. Who is the second of the children that the narrator's grandmother knows of who was taken by witches?
(a) Harold.
(b) Ranghild Hansen Ranghild.
(c) Lief.
(d) Solveg Christiansen.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the second child that the narrator's grandmother knows of who was taken by witches end up?

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

3. What is the "motto of all witches," according to the narrator in "A Note About Witches"?

4. What is a person called that studies witches?

5. What does the narrator's grandmother say the pupils of a witch's eye will do?

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