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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 color is a witch's spit, according to the narrator's grandmother in "How to Recognize a Witch"?
(a) Red.
(b) Green.
(c) Blue.
(d) Black.

2. What does the narrator's grandmother say the pupils of a witch's eye will do?
(a) Be green.
(b) Appear massive.
(c) Be white.
(d) Change colors.

3. The narrator says in "A Note About Witches" that ghouls and barghests are always what?
(a) Elderly.
(b) Women.
(c) Men.
(d) Children.

4. What happened to the fifth child the grandmother describes who was taken by witches?
(a) He turned into a chicken.
(b) He turned into a porpoise.
(c) He turned into a frog.
(d) He turned into stone.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

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"?

3. Where does the narrator say his father owned a business in "My Grandmother"?

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

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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