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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. Where did the second child that the narrator's grandmother knows of who was taken by witches end up?
(a) In a mouse-trap.
(b) As a statue.
(c) In a painting.
(d) In a bird sanctuary.

2. About how tall is the woman on the platform described in "Frizzled Like a Fritter"?
(a) 5'9".
(b) 6'.
(c) 5'2".
(d) 4'6".

3. What is the first thing that the Grand High Witch tells her subjects to remove in "Frizzled Like a Fritter"?
(a) Their shoes.
(b) Their masks.
(c) Their hats.
(d) Their gloves.

4. What is the first ingredient for the Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker?
(a) The juice of three toads.
(b) The wrong end of a telescope.
(c) An alarm clock.
(d) The tails of 60 mice.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from "The Recipe" means smug or braggartly?

2. 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"?

3. What does the Grand High Witch order her subjects to do immediately upon returning to their home towns in "Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker"?

4. Where is the narrator's grandmother from?

5. What is the third thing the Grand High Witch tells her subjects to remove in "Frizzled Like a Fritter"?

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