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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. 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) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Literary allusion.
(d) Simile.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a person called that studies witches?

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

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

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

5. Where did the second child that the narrator's grandmother knows of who was taken by witches end up?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens when the strange woman approaches the narrator in "The Grand High Witch"?

4. What does the Grand High Witch order her subjects to do after she has ensured the door is locked in "Frizzled like a Fritter"?

5. How is the woman who leads the meeting described when she first steps up to the podium in "Frizzled like a Fritter"?

6. What is notable about the way witches walk, according to the narrator's grandmother?

7. How does the Grand High Witch respond when she encounters the narrator's mice on the podium in "The Recipe"?

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

9. How does the narrator's grandmother describe the Secret Society of Witches 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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