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

2. What does the Grand High Witch instruct her subjects to fry the mouse tails in when making Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker?
(a) Coconut oil.
(b) Hair oil.
(c) Olive oil.
(d) Baby oil.

3. Where does the narrator say his father owned a business in "My Grandmother"?
(a) France.
(b) Norway.
(c) England.
(d) Italy.

4. What does the Grand High Witch instruct her subjects to boil the tailless mice in when making Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker?
(a) Frog-juice.
(b) Bat-juice.
(c) Cat-juice.
(d) Tomato juice.

5. What does the narrator say he does as the witches carry on in excitement in "The Recipe"?
(a) He hides behind the witch's podium.
(b) He keeps still and prays.
(c) He calls out to Bruno.
(d) He tries to slip away to the door.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

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

3. What does the Grand High Witch discern about the mice on the platform in "The Recipe"?

4. Who presumably will "bump off the stinking little children," according to the Grand High Witch's plan in "The Recipe"?

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

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

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

4. Where do the narrator and his grandmother go in "Summer Holidays"? Why?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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