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

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

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

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

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"?
(a) Literary allusion.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Simile.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the name of the fifth child that the narrator's grandmother knows of who was taken by witches?

5. 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"?

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