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

2. 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) Metaphor.
(c) Simile.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

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

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

5. What happened to the fourth child that the narrator's grandmother knows who was taken by witches?
(a) He disppeared in a painting.
(b) He turned into a frog.
(c) He turned to stone.
(d) He turned into a porpoise.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator's grandmother tells him in "My Grandmother" that she knows of no less than how many children that have disappeared and been taken by the witches?

2. What does the narrator's grandmother say a real witch is certain to always be wearing in "How to Recognize a Witch"?

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

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

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

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