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

2. What does the Grand High Witch say never happens to witches in "The Recipe"?
(a) They are never killed.
(b) They are never married.
(c) They are never deceived.
(d) They are never caught.

3. What is the second thing the Grand High Witch tells her subjects to remove in "Frizzled Like a Fritter"?
(a) Their hats.
(b) Their masks.
(c) Their shoes.
(d) Their gloves.

4. What happened to the third child that the grandmother knew who was taken by witches?
(a) She turned into a frog.
(b) She turned into a porpoise.
(c) She turned into stone.
(d) She turned into a chicken.

5. What color are the narrator's grandmother's cigars?
(a) Black.
(b) Brown.
(c) Blue.
(d) White.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. Where were the narrator and his parents when they had a car accident?

3. Where does the narrator hide when he flees from the witches as a mouse in "Metamorphosis"?

4. What is the woman on the platform wearing in "Frizzled Like a Fritter"?

5. Where did the second child that the narrator's grandmother knows of who was taken by witches end up?

(see the answer key)

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