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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 ingredient in Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker that causes its delayed action?

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

3. What does the narrator say he does as the witches carry on in excitement in "The Recipe"?

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

5. What is the man carrying when he comes to the narrator's grandmother's house in "The Grand High Witch"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does the Grand High Witch express anger at her subjects at the meeting in "Frizzled like a Fritter"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the narrator's grandmother in The Witches. How old is the narrator's grandmother? Where does she live? How does this character differ from other grandmothers for the narrator?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the narrator's actions, objectives, and obstacles when he goes to put the potion into the witches' food in the novel. How does the narrator get into the Kitchen and to the correct dish? How does he escape? What obstacles does he face?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the plot structure of The Witches. Where in the novel is the exposition? Where does the rising action begin? Where is the climax of the novel? What information is revealed in the falling action and denouement?

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