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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 color is the magical formula called "Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker"?
(a) Red.
(b) Blue.
(c) Green.
(d) Clear.

2. The narrator says in "A Note About Witches" that ghouls and barghests are always what?
(a) Children.
(b) Elderly.
(c) Men.
(d) Women.

3. 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) Alliteration.
(b) Consonance.
(c) Assonance.
(d) Literary allusion.

4. What happened to the fourth child that the narrator's grandmother knows who was taken by witches?
(a) He turned into a frog.
(b) He disppeared in a painting.
(c) He turned to stone.
(d) He turned into a porpoise.

5. What does the Grand High Witch instruct her subjects to fry the mouse tails in when making Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker?
(a) Olive oil.
(b) Baby oil.
(c) Hair oil.
(d) Coconut oil.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is notable about a witch's feet, according to the narrator's grandmother in "How to Recognize a Witch"?

2. What does the Grand High Witch instruct her subjects to boil the tailless mice in when making Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker?

3. 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?

4. 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"?

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

(see the answer key)

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