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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Meeting" – "The Recipe".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how long must one boil the first ingredient of Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker in order to make it soft?
(a) Two days.
(b) Eight hours.
(c) Ten hours.
(d) 24 hours.

2. What happened to the fourth child that the narrator's grandmother knows who was taken by witches?
(a) He turned into a porpoise.
(b) He turned into a frog.
(c) He disppeared in a painting.
(d) He turned to stone.

3. What does the Grand High Witch say she will do to the narrator when she sniffs him out in "The Recipe"?
(a) Turn him into stone.
(b) Turn him into a toad.
(c) Turn him into a mackerel.
(d) Turn him into a porpoise.

4. Approximately how many children does a "real witch" kill each year, according to the narrator in "A Note About Witches"?
(a) 25.
(b) 68.
(c) 52.
(d) 10.

5. Who presumably will "bump off the stinking little children," according to the Grand High Witch's plan in "The Recipe"?
(a) The police.
(b) Other children.
(c) Their parents.
(d) Their teachers.

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 narrator's grandmother say the pupils of a witch's eye will do?

3. About how old is the woman who stands on the platform described as in "Frizzled Like a Fritter"?

4. Where were the narrator and his parents when they had a car accident?

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

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