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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator's grandmother say the pupils of a witch's eye will do?
(a) Be white.
(b) Appear massive.
(c) Be green.
(d) Change colors.

2. What color is the magical formula called "Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker"?
(a) Clear.
(b) Blue.
(c) Red.
(d) Green.

3. Grandma describes witches as being as bald as what in "How to Recognize a Witch"?
(a) An old man.
(b) A cucumber.
(c) A baby.
(d) A boiled egg.

4. What does the Grand High Witch do to the mice on the platform in "The Recipe"?
(a) She puts them in a cage.
(b) She steps on them.
(c) She kicks them.
(d) She eats them.

5. About how old was the first of the children that was taken by the witches that the narrator's grandmother knew?
(a) Three.
(b) Six.
(c) Ten.
(d) Eight.

6. About how many women are in attendance at the meeting, according to the narrator's assessment, at the Hotel Magnificent?
(a) 300.
(b) 200.
(c) 65.
(d) 150.

7. What is the name of the fifth child that the narrator's grandmother knows of who was taken by witches?
(a) Lief.
(b) Harold.
(c) Bruno Jenkins.
(d) Ranghild Hansen Ranghild.

8. What does the Grand High Witch discern about the mice on the platform in "The Recipe"?
(a) They are secretly witches.
(b) They are spies.
(c) They are pet mice.
(d) They are formerly grown-ups.

9. Who is the third child that the narrator's grandmother knows of who was taken by witches?
(a) Birgit Svenson.
(b) Harold.
(c) Lief.
(d) Ranghild Hansen Ranghild.

10. What is the name of the narrator's male pet mouse?
(a) William.
(b) Bruno.
(c) Paul.
(d) Lief.

11. What is the name of the fourth child that the narrator's grandmother knows of who was taken by witches?
(a) Harold.
(b) Lief.
(c) Bruno Jenkins.
(d) Ranghild Hansen Ranghild.

12. The narrator says in "The Recipe" that the witches in the room are thinking of nothing except what?
(a) How to find Bruno and bring him to the room.
(b) The Grand High Witch and her plan.
(c) The hotel manager and his threats.
(d) The police and their threats.

13. How many encounters with witches does the narrator describe having before he was eight years old in "My Grandmother"?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

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

15. 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"?
(a) To resign from their jobs.
(b) To divorce their husbands.
(c) To invest in mortgages.
(d) To begin eating children.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the man carrying when he comes to the narrator's grandmother's house in "The Grand High Witch"?

3. The narrator says in "A Note About Witches" that ghouls and barghests are always what?

4. The narrator's grandmother tells him in "My Grandmother" that she knows of no less than how many children that have disappeared and been taken by the witches?

5. About how tall is the woman on the platform described in "Frizzled Like a Fritter"?

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