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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Six.
(c) Three.
(d) Five.

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

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

4. What does the Grand High Witch order her subjects to do immediately upon returning to their home towns in "Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker"?
(a) To begin eating children.
(b) To resign from their jobs.
(c) To invest in mortgages.
(d) To divorce their husbands.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Grandma describes witches as being as bald as what in "How to Recognize a Witch"?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the narrator and protagonist of The Witches. How old is he? Where does he live?

2. What oddities does the narrator note about the women in the Banquet hall in "The Meeting"? How does he respond?

3. What happened to the five children that the grandmother describes who were taken by witches in "My Grandmother"?

4. What happens to the witch who questions the Grand High Witch in "Frizzled like a Fritter"?

5. Why does the Grand High Witch express anger at her subjects at the meeting in "Frizzled like a Fritter"?

6. What are the main ingredients described in "The Recipe"?

7. How is the Grand High Witch's face described when she takes off her mask?

8. Why is the narrator in the Banquet hall when the women begin their meeting?

9. What is notable about witches from different countries, according to the narrator's grandmother in "The Grand High Witch"?

10. How does the narrator describe the appearance and behavior of "real witches" in "A Note About Witches"?

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