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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the narrator's male pet mouse?
(a) Bruno.
(b) Paul.
(c) Lief.
(d) William.

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

3. 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 calls out to Bruno.
(c) He hides behind the witch's podium.
(d) He keeps still and prays.

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) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Six.

5. What are the witches ordered to buy after returning to their home towns in "Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker"?
(a) Bakeries.
(b) Sweet-shops.
(c) Schools.
(d) Coffee shops.

6. 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.

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

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

9. What happened to the fifth child the grandmother describes who was taken by witches?
(a) He turned into stone.
(b) He turned into a frog.
(c) He turned into a porpoise.
(d) He turned into a chicken.

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

11. What is the name of the fifth child that the narrator's grandmother knows of who was taken by witches?
(a) Ranghild Hansen Ranghild.
(b) Bruno Jenkins.
(c) Lief.
(d) Harold.

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

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

14. Who was the first child that the narrator's grandmother knew who was taken by the witches?
(a) Ranghild Hansen Ranghild.
(b) Solveg Christiansen.
(c) Lief.
(d) Birgit Svenson.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What gives off the most ghastly stench to a witch, according to the narrator's grandmother in "How to Recognize a Witch"?

2. What does the Grand High Witch instruct her subjects to fry the mouse tails in when making Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker?

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

4. The narrator says in "A Note About Witches" that ghouls and barghests are always what?

5. How does the Grand High Witch pronounce "England" in "Frizzled Like a Fritter"?

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