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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 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) "Eat them and drink them and swallow them whole."
(c) "Squish them and squiggle them and make them disappear."
(d) "Hail to the Grand High Witch and may we all follow her lead."

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

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) Assonance.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Literary allusion.
(d) Consonance.

4. The narrator says in "My Grandmother" that his grandmother is the only grandmother he ever met that does what?
(a) Smokes cigars.
(b) Eats olives.
(c) Drinks Scotch.
(d) Drives a car.

5. What is the name of the narrator's female pet mouse?
(a) Mary.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Topsy.
(d) Anna.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the fifth child that the narrator's grandmother knows of who was taken by witches?

3. How many brown mouse tails are required to make Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker?

4. What color is a witch's spit, according to the narrator's grandmother in "How to Recognize a Witch"?

5. Who is the second of the children that the narrator's grandmother knows of who was taken by witches?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to the five children that the grandmother describes who were taken by witches in "My Grandmother"?

2. What does the Grand High Witch order her subjects to do after she has ensured the door is locked in "Frizzled like a Fritter"?

3. Describe the narrator and protagonist of The Witches. How old is he? Where does he live?

4. What are the narrator's initial impressions of the women who enter the Banquet hall in "The Meeting"?

5. How is the woman who leads the meeting described when she first steps up to the podium in "Frizzled like a Fritter"?

6. How is the Grand High Witch's face described when she takes off her mask?

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

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

9. What are the main ingredients described in "The Recipe"?

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

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