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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the witches ordered to buy after returning to their home towns in "Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker"?
(a) Coffee shops.
(b) Schools.
(c) Sweet-shops.
(d) Bakeries.

2. What does the narrator's grandmother say a real witch is certain to always be wearing in "How to Recognize a Witch"?
(a) A black cape.
(b) Spiked heels.
(c) A pointy hat.
(d) Gloves.

3. 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) Literary allusion.
(c) Assonance.
(d) Consonance.

4. What does the Grand High Witch describe children as smelling like in "Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker"?
(a) Dogs' droppings.
(b) Rotten eggs.
(c) Jasmine flowers.
(d) Rotting fruit.

5. How many brown mouse tails are required to make Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker?
(a) 60.
(b) 100.
(c) 45.
(d) 25.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many trunks of counterfeit money does the Grand High Witch say she has brought with her in "Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker"?

2. 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?

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

4. What is every woman in the room wearing in "The Meeting"?

5. What is the woman on the platform wearing in "Frizzled Like a Fritter"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the appearance and behavior of "real witches" in "A Note About Witches"?

2. What happens to the witch who questions the Grand High Witch in "Frizzled like a Fritter"?

3. How does the narrator come to live with his grandmother?

4. What is notable about witches from different countries, according to the narrator's grandmother in "The Grand High Witch"?

5. What role does Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker play in the Grand High Witch's plan?

6. Describe the narrator's grandmother. How old is she? Where does she live?

7. Why do the narrator and his grandmother return to England in "The Grand High Witch"? Where do they live?

8. What happens when the strange woman approaches the narrator in "The Grand High Witch"?

9. Why do witches always wear wigs and gloves, according to the narrator's grandmother?

10. Why is the narrator in the Banquet hall when the women begin their meeting?

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