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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. What literary device is illustrated in the following excerpt from "A Note About Witches": ". . . her mind will always be plotting and scheming and churning and burning and whizzing and phizzing"?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Assonance.
(c) Literary allusion.
(d) Consonance.

2. What is every woman in the room wearing in "The Meeting"?
(a) Spiked heels.
(b) Gloves.
(c) Aprons.
(d) Capes.

3. What is the man carrying when he comes to the narrator's grandmother's house in "The Grand High Witch"?
(a) A bread basket.
(b) A heavy suitcase.
(c) A briefcase.
(d) A grocery bag.

4. What is the "motto of all witches," according to the narrator in "A Note About Witches"?
(a) "Fly and dance and shout and sing until the day becomes the dream."
(b) "Squish them and squiggle them and make them disappear."
(c) "Hail to the Grand High Witch and may we all follow her lead."
(d) "Eat them and drink them and swallow them whole."

5. What does the Grand High Witch instruct her subjects to fry the mouse tails in when making Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker?
(a) Baby oil.
(b) Olive oil.
(c) Hair oil.
(d) Coconut oil.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the fourth child that the narrator's grandmother knows who was taken by witches?

2. Who is the third child that the narrator's grandmother knows of who was taken by witches?

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

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

5. How old was the fifth child that the narrator's grandmother knows of when he was taken by witches?

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