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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator consider to be his only hope in "The Recipe"?
(a) The fact that he has his mice with him.
(b) The fact that he is wearing a costume.
(c) The fact that Bruno is with him.
(d) The fact that he has not bathed for days.

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does the Grand High Witch do to the mice on the platform in "The Recipe"?
(a) She puts them in a cage.
(b) She steps on them.
(c) She eats them.
(d) She kicks them.

11. 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) How to find Bruno and bring him to the room.
(c) The Grand High Witch and her plan.
(d) The police and their threats.

12. Who presumably will "bump off the stinking little children," according to the Grand High Witch's plan in "The Recipe"?
(a) The police.
(b) Other children.
(c) Their teachers.
(d) Their parents.

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

14. 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 obtain magical potions.
(d) How to get rid of all the adults in her territory.

15. What does the Grand High Witch instruct her subjects to boil the tailless mice in when making Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker?
(a) Cat-juice.
(b) Bat-juice.
(c) Frog-juice.
(d) Tomato juice.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the man carrying when he comes to the narrator's grandmother's house in "The Grand High Witch"?

3. What does the narrator's grandmother say the pupils of a witch's eye will do?

4. What is the ingredient in Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker that causes its delayed action?

5. For how long must one boil the first ingredient of Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker in order to make it soft?

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