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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What near accident proves to Granny that public opinion about witches is changing?
(a) Someone places booby traps all around her cottage.
(b) A coach almost runs her down.
(c) Someone sets a ring of fire around her cottage.
(d) An arrow is shot toward Granny.

2. What does the king do after shouting to silence the rumbling of the natural disaster?
(a) Vows to kill the witches.
(b) Hides from the fool.
(c) Hides from his wife.
(d) Cries.

3. What cover does Granny use as she approaches the castle in a crowd of angry townspeople?
(a) Physician.
(b) Fool.
(c) Mystic.
(d) Apple saleswoman.

4. Who is told to sleep outside the king's door?
(a) Felmet.
(b) An unnamed servant.
(c) Fool.
(d) Granny.

5. Who is initially smitten with Magrat's forest dancing?
(a) A warlock.
(b) The queen.
(c) The fool.
(d) The king.

6. What name does Granny settle on for the godchild's name?
(a) Tomtom.
(b) Johntom.
(c) Tomjohn.
(d) Johnjohn.

7. Who threatens to torture Nanny when she is held as prisoner?
(a) The cat.
(b) The ghost king.
(c) Lord and Lady Felmet.
(d) The townspeople.

8. Who was given coins by Magrat?
(a) The theater troupe.
(b) Tax collectors.
(c) Granny.
(d) A poor man.

9. Who becomes a ghost in the beginning of the story?
(a) Death (the Grim Reaper)
(b) Lord Felmet.
(c) A'tuin.
(d) King Verence.

10. Who kills the new king of Lancre?
(a) King Verence.
(b) Magrat.
(c) Death.
(d) Lord Felmet.

11. What have the townspeople been telling Nanny they want?
(a) A king they can trust.
(b) The witches to take over the castle.
(c) A tax refund.
(d) More money.

12. What do the witches threaten in order to get the demon they conjure to cooperate?
(a) They will weaken it with milk.
(b) They will boil it.
(c) They will make it vanish.
(d) They will torture it with religious songs.

13. Who is handed a bundled baby?
(a) Granny.
(b) Lancre.
(c) Nanny.
(d) Magrat.

14. What do the witches find inside the ruffians' coach after they flee?
(a) A crown.
(b) A dead guy.
(c) A treasure chest.
(d) Another baby.

15. Who is impressed with Magrat's spell to open the chamber door?
(a) Granny.
(b) Magrat herself.
(c) Nanny.
(d) The Fool.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these is not a witch in this story?

2. Which witch seems to be more integrated into the culture of the community?

3. After the play, who invites the women to a pub?

4. What does Granny offer to a married couple in the pub?

5. Who stabs the ruffian leader who wants to retrieve the bundled baby?

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