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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. About how old is the woman who stands on the platform described as in "Frizzled Like a Fritter"?
(a) 18.
(b) 35.
(c) 16.
(d) 25.

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

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

4. 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) Literary allusion.
(d) Assonance.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who presumably will "bump off the stinking little children," according to the Grand High Witch's plan in "The Recipe"?

2. What are the witches ordered to buy after returning to their home towns in "Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker"?

3. What does the narrator's grandmother say the pupils of a witch's eye will do?

4. What is the "motto of all witches," according to the narrator in "A Note About Witches"?

5. The narrator claims in "A Note About Witches" that this story is NOT what?

(see the answer key)

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