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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. About how many women are in attendance at the meeting, according to the narrator's assessment, at the Hotel Magnificent?
(a) 200.
(b) 150.
(c) 300.
(d) 65.

2. About how old is the woman who stands on the platform described as in "Frizzled Like a Fritter"?
(a) 25.
(b) 35.
(c) 18.
(d) 16.

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) Their teachers.
(d) The police.

4. What is the first ingredient for the Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker?
(a) The tails of 60 mice.
(b) The juice of three toads.
(c) An alarm clock.
(d) The wrong end of a telescope.

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) Bat-juice.
(b) Frog-juice.
(c) Cat-juice.
(d) Tomato juice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator say his father owned a business in "My Grandmother"?

2. What gives off the most ghastly stench to a witch, according to the narrator's grandmother in "How to Recognize a Witch"?

3. How are the houses described that "real witches" live in, in "A Note About Witches"?

4. How many trunks of counterfeit money does the Grand High Witch say she has brought with her in "Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker"?

5. The narrator's grandmother tells him in "My Grandmother" that she knows of no less than how many children that have disappeared and been taken by the witches?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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