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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. The narrator says in "My Grandmother" that his grandmother is the only grandmother he ever met that does what?
(a) Drinks Scotch.
(b) Smokes cigars.
(c) Eats olives.
(d) Drives a car.

2. 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 chicken.
(d) He turned into a porpoise.

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

4. What color is the magical formula called "Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker"?
(a) Clear.
(b) Red.
(c) Green.
(d) Blue.

5. What is the ingredient in Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker that causes its delayed action?
(a) A dog collar.
(b) A pigeon brain.
(c) The wrong end of a telescope.
(d) An alarm clock.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the Grand High Witch instruct her subjects to boil the tailless mice in when making Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker?

5. 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"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why do witches always wear wigs and gloves, according to the narrator's grandmother?

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

5. Why do the narrator and his grandmother return to England in "The Grand High Witch"? Where do they live?

6. What are the narrator's initial impressions of the women who enter the Banquet hall in "The Meeting"?

7. How does the narrator come to live with his grandmother?

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

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

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

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