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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

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

5. What is the woman on the platform wearing in "Frizzled Like a Fritter"?
(a) A long white dress.
(b) A flowery blue dress.
(c) A long black dress.
(d) A red mini-skirt.

6. The narrator says in "The Recipe" that the witches in the room are thinking of nothing except what?
(a) The hotel manager and his threats.
(b) The police and their threats.
(c) How to find Bruno and bring him to the room.
(d) The Grand High Witch and her plan.

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

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

9. 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 to stone.
(c) He turned into a porpoise.
(d) He turned into a frog.

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

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

12. The narrator says in "A Note About Witches" that ghouls and barghests are always what?
(a) Women.
(b) Men.
(c) Elderly.
(d) Children.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the houses described that "real witches" live in, in "A Note About Witches"?

2. What is a person called that studies witches?

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

4. Approximately how many "real witches" exist in England today, according to the narrator in "A Note About Witches"?

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"?

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