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

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

3. Who was the first child that the narrator's grandmother knew who was taken by the witches?
(a) Ranghild Hansen Ranghild.
(b) Birgit Svenson.
(c) Lief.
(d) Solveg Christiansen.

4. Where were the narrator and his parents when they had a car accident?
(a) Norht of Paris.
(b) In the French Alps.
(c) South of London.
(d) North of Oslo.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says in "My Grandmother" that his grandmother is the only grandmother he ever met that does what?

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

3. How are the houses described that "real witches" live in, in "A Note About Witches"?

4. 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"?

5. Grandma describes witches as being as bald as what in "How to Recognize a Witch"?

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