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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 Grand High Witch's audience do after her song in "The Recipe"?
(a) They clap and shout.
(b) They burst into tears.
(c) They sit silently.
(d) They run from the room.

2. The narrator says in "A Note About Witches" that ghouls and barghests are always what?
(a) Children.
(b) Women.
(c) Elderly.
(d) Men.

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

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

5. 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) Tomato juice.
(c) Bat-juice.
(d) Cat-juice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is notable about a witch's feet, according to the narrator's grandmother in "How to Recognize a Witch"?

2. Approximately how many children does a "real witch" kill each year, according to the narrator in "A Note About Witches"?

3. What is the name of the narrator's male pet mouse?

4. About how old was the first of the children that was taken by the witches that the narrator's grandmother knew?

5. Who is the second of the children that the narrator's grandmother knows of who was taken by witches?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What role does Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker play in the Grand High Witch's plan?

10. How does the narrator's grandmother describe the Secret Society of Witches in "The Grand High Witch"?

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