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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 first thing that the Grand High Witch tells her subjects to remove in "Frizzled Like a Fritter"?

2. What is the name of the narrator's female pet mouse?

3. How does the Grand High Witch pronounce "England" in "Frizzled Like a Fritter"?

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

5. What is the "motto of all witches," according to the narrator in "A Note About Witches"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the themes of identity and family in The Witches. How does the narrator come to terms with his identity and what does he say about his future as a mouse? What is the most important thing to the narrator at the end of the story? Why?

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

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?

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