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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) Turn to stone.
(b) Drive off of bridges.
(c) Sell their children to witches.
(d) Eat their own children.

2. Who presumably will "bump off the stinking little children," according to the Grand High Witch's plan in "The Recipe"?
(a) Their parents.
(b) Their teachers.
(c) Other children.
(d) The police.

3. What does the narrator say he does as the witches carry on in excitement in "The Recipe"?
(a) He hides behind the witch's podium.
(b) He keeps still and prays.
(c) He tries to slip away to the door.
(d) He calls out to Bruno.

4. How many brown mouse tails are required to make Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker?
(a) 45.
(b) 60.
(c) 100.
(d) 25.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the Grand High Witch order her subjects to do immediately upon returning to their home towns in "Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker"?

3. What is a person called that studies witches?

4. What kind of egg is added when making Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker?

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

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