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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does the narrator say "real witches" dress in "A Note About Witches"?
(a) In black hats and cloaks.
(b) In suits of invisible armor.
(c) In ordinary clothes.
(d) In top hats and suits.

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

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

5. What gives off the most ghastly stench to a witch, according to the narrator's grandmother in "How to Recognize a Witch"?
(a) A cat.
(b) A dirty child.
(c) A mouse.
(d) A clean child.

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. Where were the narrator and his parents when they had a car accident?
(a) In the French Alps.
(b) North of Oslo.
(c) Norht of Paris.
(d) South of London.

8. 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) Ten.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Six.

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

10. How long does the transformation last that is caused by "Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker"?
(a) 10 seconds.
(b) 36 seconds.
(c) 26 seconds.
(d) Two minutes.

11. What is the third thing 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 wigs.

12. How many brown mouse tails are required to make Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker?
(a) 25.
(b) 60.
(c) 45.
(d) 100.

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

14. 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.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator claims in "A Note About Witches" that this story is NOT what?

2. What does the Grand High Witch say never happens to witches in "The Recipe"?

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

4. 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"?

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

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