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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a person called that studies witches?
(a) A witch doctor.
(b) A witchintigist.
(c) A witchologist.
(d) A witchophile.

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

3. What word from "The Recipe" means smug or braggartly?
(a) Lacrimose.
(b) Daring.
(c) Amicable.
(d) Gloating.

4. 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?
(a) Five.
(b) Six.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

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

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

7. About how tall is the woman on the platform described in "Frizzled Like a Fritter"?
(a) 5'9".
(b) 4'6".
(c) 6'.
(d) 5'2".

8. The narrator says in "My Grandmother" that his grandmother is the only grandmother he ever met that does what?
(a) Eats olives.
(b) Drives a car.
(c) Drinks Scotch.
(d) Smokes cigars.

9. The narrator claims in "A Note About Witches" that this story is NOT what?
(a) A true story.
(b) A drama.
(c) A fairy tale.
(d) A mythology.

10. What does the Grand High Witch describe children as smelling like in "Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker"?
(a) Dogs' droppings.
(b) Rotten eggs.
(c) Rotting fruit.
(d) Jasmine flowers.

11. What color is a witch's spit, according to the narrator's grandmother in "How to Recognize a Witch"?
(a) Black.
(b) Red.
(c) Green.
(d) Blue.

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

13. Where does the narrator say his father owned a business in "My Grandmother"?
(a) France.
(b) Norway.
(c) England.
(d) Italy.

14. 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"?
(a) To invest in mortgages.
(b) To divorce their husbands.
(c) To resign from their jobs.
(d) To begin eating children.

15. How does the Grand High Witch pronounce "England" in "Frizzled Like a Fritter"?
(a) "Inkland."
(b) "Ungland."
(c) "Igland."
(d) "Angland."

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator say "real witches" dress in "A Note About Witches"?

2. What does the Grand High Witch say she will do to the narrator when she sniffs him out in "The Recipe"?

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

4. What is the third thing the Grand High Witch tells her subjects to remove in "Frizzled Like a Fritter"?

5. How many encounters with witches does the narrator describe having before he was eight years old in "My Grandmother"?

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