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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was the fifth child that the narrator's grandmother knows of when he was taken by witches?
(a) Five.
(b) 11.
(c) Nine.
(d) 12.

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

3. Approximately how many children does a "real witch" kill each year, according to the narrator in "A Note About Witches"?
(a) 25.
(b) 52.
(c) 10.
(d) 68.

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

5. 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) In a bird sanctuary.
(c) In a painting.
(d) As a statue.

6. How many trunks of counterfeit money does the Grand High Witch say she has brought with her in "Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker"?
(a) Six.
(b) Ten.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

7. What is notable about a witch's feet, according to the narrator's grandmother in "How to Recognize a Witch"?
(a) They look like cat's claws.
(b) They have no toes.
(c) They are abnormally small.
(d) They are abnormally large.

8. 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"?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Simile.
(c) Literary allusion.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

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

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

11. 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) Literary allusion.
(c) Consonance.
(d) Alliteration.

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

13. What does the Grand High Witch do to the mice on the platform in "The Recipe"?
(a) She kicks them.
(b) She puts them in a cage.
(c) She eats them.
(d) She steps on them.

14. For how long must one boil the first ingredient of Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker in order to make it soft?
(a) Two days.
(b) 24 hours.
(c) Eight hours.
(d) Ten hours.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the second of the children that the narrator's grandmother knows of who was taken by witches?

2. What is the name of the manager of the Hotel Magnificent?

3. Who was the first child that the narrator's grandmother knew who was taken by the witches?

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

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

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