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

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

3. What is a person called that studies witches?
(a) A witchophile.
(b) A witchintigist.
(c) A witchologist.
(d) A witch doctor.

4. 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?
(a) Six.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

5. What is the man carrying when he comes to the narrator's grandmother's house in "The Grand High Witch"?
(a) A briefcase.
(b) A bread basket.
(c) A heavy suitcase.
(d) A grocery bag.

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately how many "real witches" exist in England today, according to the narrator in "A Note About Witches"?

2. What gives off the most ghastly stench to a witch, according to the narrator's grandmother in "How to Recognize a Witch"?

3. The narrator claims in "A Note About Witches" that this story is NOT what?

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

5. 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"?

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