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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Meeting" – "The Recipe".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator's grandmother say American witches are capable of making grown-ups do in "The Grand High Witch"?
(a) Drive off of bridges.
(b) Eat their own children.
(c) Turn to stone.
(d) Sell their children to witches.

2. What gives off the most ghastly stench to a witch, according to the narrator's grandmother in "How to Recognize a Witch"?
(a) A dirty child.
(b) A mouse.
(c) A cat.
(d) A clean child.

3. Where did the second child that the narrator's grandmother knows of who was taken by witches end up?
(a) In a painting.
(b) As a statue.
(c) In a bird sanctuary.
(d) In a mouse-trap.

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

5. What does a "real witch" spend all her time plotting, according to the narrator in "A Note About Witches"?
(a) How to rise to the throne of the Grand High Witch.
(b) How to obtain magical potions.
(c) How to get rid of all the adults in her territory.
(d) How to get rid of the children in her territory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Grand High Witch do to the mice on the platform in "The Recipe"?

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

3. About how old is the woman who stands on the platform described as in "Frizzled Like a Fritter"?

4. What does the Grand High Witch discern about the mice on the platform in "The Recipe"?

5. How old was the fifth child that the narrator's grandmother knows of when he was taken by witches?

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