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

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

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

4. Where is the narrator's grandmother from?
(a) Norway.
(b) England.
(c) France.
(d) Germany.

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

6. 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"?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Literary allusion.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Simile.

7. How many encounters with witches does the narrator describe having before he was eight years old in "My Grandmother"?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

8. What does the Grand High Witch describe children as smelling like in "Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker"?
(a) Rotten eggs.
(b) Dogs' droppings.
(c) Jasmine flowers.
(d) Rotting fruit.

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

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

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

13. What does the narrator's grandmother say American witches are capable of making grown-ups do in "The Grand High Witch"?
(a) Eat their own children.
(b) Turn to stone.
(c) Drive off of bridges.
(d) Sell their children to witches.

14. Approximately how many children does a "real witch" kill each year, according to the narrator in "A Note About Witches"?
(a) 10.
(b) 52.
(c) 68.
(d) 25.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many brown mouse tails are required to make Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker?

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

3. Where were the narrator and his parents when they had a car accident?

4. What is the name of the fourth child that the narrator's grandmother knows of who was taken by witches?

5. What happened to the third child that the grandmother knew who was taken by witches?

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