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

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

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 shoes.
(c) Their wigs.
(d) Their gloves.

4. The narrator claims in "A Note About Witches" that this story is NOT what?
(a) A fairy tale.
(b) A mythology.
(c) A true story.
(d) A drama.

5. How are the houses described that "real witches" live in, in "A Note About Witches"?
(a) Spooky.
(b) Ordinary.
(c) Castles.
(d) All-black.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the third child that the narrator's grandmother knows of who was taken by witches?

2. What does the narrator's grandmother say a real witch is certain to always be wearing in "How to Recognize a Witch"?

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

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

5. What does the narrator consider to be his only hope in "The Recipe"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Describe the narrator's grandmother. How old is she? Where does she live?

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

10. Why does the Grand High Witch tell her subjects to quit their jobs when they return home in "Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker"?

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