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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the Grand High Witch do to the mice on the platform in "The Recipe"?

3. For how long must one boil the first ingredient of Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker in order to make it soft?

4. How many encounters with witches does the narrator describe having before he was eight years old in "My Grandmother"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How is the Grand High Witch's face described when she takes off her mask?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why do the narrator and his grandmother return to England? Where do they live when they return to England? How is this setting described? What are the narrator's feelings about returning to England?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the character of Bruno Jenkins. What history does the narrator have with Bruno before his character is introduced at the Annual Meeting of the Witches? What are the narrator's feelings about Bruno? How do Bruno's actions in the story reveal his character?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the narrative style of The Witches. Why do you think the author chooses to relate the novel from a first-person perspective? How would the story change if it were related from a third-person narrator? Is the story related in the past or present tense? Why?

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