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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) Nine.
(c) 11.
(d) 12.

2. What is the first ingredient for the Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker?
(a) An alarm clock.
(b) The wrong end of a telescope.
(c) The tails of 60 mice.
(d) The juice of three toads.

3. 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) Alliteration.
(c) Assonance.
(d) Consonance.

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

5. 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) Simile.
(b) Literary allusion.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

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

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

8. Grandma describes witches as being as bald as what in "How to Recognize a Witch"?
(a) An old man.
(b) A baby.
(c) A boiled egg.
(d) A cucumber.

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

10. Who is the second of the children that the narrator's grandmother knows of who was taken by witches?
(a) Solveg Christiansen.
(b) Harold.
(c) Lief.
(d) Ranghild Hansen Ranghild.

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

12. What happened to the fourth child that the narrator's grandmother knows who was taken by witches?
(a) He disppeared in a painting.
(b) He turned into a frog.
(c) He turned into a porpoise.
(d) He turned to stone.

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

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

15. What does the Grand High Witch say she will do to the narrator when she sniffs him out in "The Recipe"?
(a) Turn him into a toad.
(b) Turn him into stone.
(c) Turn him into a mackerel.
(d) Turn him into a porpoise.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many brown mouse tails are required to make Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker?

2. Where is the narrator's grandmother from?

3. What does the narrator say he does as the witches carry on in excitement in "The Recipe"?

4. How does the Grand High Witch pronounce "England" 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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