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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 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"?
(a) Literary allusion.
(b) Assonance.
(c) Consonance.
(d) Alliteration.

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

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

4. Who is the third child that the narrator's grandmother knows of who was taken by witches?
(a) Harold.
(b) Lief.
(c) Birgit Svenson.
(d) Ranghild Hansen Ranghild.

5. What does the narrator's grandmother say a real witch is certain to always be wearing in "How to Recognize a Witch"?
(a) Spiked heels.
(b) A pointy hat.
(c) A black cape.
(d) Gloves.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does a "real witch" spend all her time plotting, according to the narrator in "A Note About Witches"?

4. Approximately how many children does a "real witch" kill each year, according to the narrator in "A Note About Witches"?

5. What happened to the third child that the grandmother knew who was taken by witches?

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