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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 does a "real witch" spend all her time plotting, according to the narrator in "A Note About Witches"?
(a) How to get rid of the children in her territory.
(b) How to get rid of all the adults in her territory.
(c) How to obtain magical potions.
(d) How to rise to the throne of the Grand High Witch.

2. What is a person called that studies witches?
(a) A witchophile.
(b) A witchintigist.
(c) A witch doctor.
(d) A witchologist.

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

4. What kind of egg is added when making Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker?
(a) A snake's egg.
(b) A gruntle's egg.
(c) A duck's egg.
(d) A chicken's egg.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator's grandmother say the pupils of a witch's eye will do?

2. About how many women are in attendance at the meeting, according to the narrator's assessment, at the Hotel Magnificent?

3. What does the Grand High Witch describe children as smelling like in "Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker"?

4. What is the "motto of all witches," according to the narrator in "A Note About Witches"?

5. What is the name of the narrator's female pet mouse?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the narrator's grandmother describe the Secret Society of Witches in "The Grand High Witch"?

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

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

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

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

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

8. Where do the narrator and his grandmother go in "Summer Holidays"? Why?

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

10. Why does the Grand High Witch tell her subjects to quit their jobs when they return home in "Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker"?

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