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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About how many women are in attendance at the meeting, according to the narrator's assessment, at the Hotel Magnificent?
(a) 150.
(b) 65.
(c) 200.
(d) 300.

2. What does the narrator's grandmother say the pupils of a witch's eye will do?
(a) Be white.
(b) Appear massive.
(c) Be green.
(d) Change colors.

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

4. What does the Grand High Witch do after announcing her plan to her subjects in "Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker"?
(a) She flies around the room.
(b) She runs from the room.
(c) She sings and dances.
(d) She bursts into flames.

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

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

7. What is the "motto of all witches," according to the narrator in "A Note About Witches"?
(a) "Squish them and squiggle them and make them disappear."
(b) "Fly and dance and shout and sing until the day becomes the dream."
(c) "Hail to the Grand High Witch and may we all follow her lead."
(d) "Eat them and drink them and swallow them whole."

8. What kind of egg is added when making Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker?
(a) A chicken's egg.
(b) A gruntle's egg.
(c) A duck's egg.
(d) A snake's egg.

9. What does the Grand High Witch discern about the mice on the platform in "The Recipe"?
(a) They are spies.
(b) They are pet mice.
(c) They are formerly grown-ups.
(d) They are secretly witches.

10. What does the Grand High Witch's audience do after her song in "The Recipe"?
(a) They burst into tears.
(b) They sit silently.
(c) They clap and shout.
(d) They run from the room.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is notable about a witch's feet, according to the narrator's grandmother in "How to Recognize a Witch"?

2. Who is the third child that the narrator's grandmother knows of who was taken by witches?

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

4. Where is the narrator's grandmother from?

5. What is the name of the narrator's male pet mouse?

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