"The Witches" by Roald Dahl Trivia Quiz

Answer: True

At the start of the book, in "A Note About Witches", the narrator says that even though most women are lovely, a witch is always a woman. Male witches do not exist.

Answer: Norway

The book starts in Norway, where the narrator's parents died in a car crash. He goes to his grandma and they stay in Norway for a while, before going to England.

Norway has the largest number of witches living in it and is the place where the Grand High Witch lives.

Answer: Ears

Witches have claws instead of fingernails, and wear gloves to cover up this fact. Witches are bald, and always wear wigs. Witches have feet, but no toes: they just have square ends. This makes walking in shoes uncomfortable.

Answer: Blue

Witches have spit as "blue as a bilberry". Instead of writing with ink, they can use old-fashioned pens with nibs and simply lick the nib when they want to write. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to notice the blue saliva, unless a witch spits, but they are very careful to avoid spitting.

Answer: She has a machine that prints bank-notes

The Grand High Witch can make any kind of money (English pounds, American dollars, Chinese Yuan etc.) using machines identical to the ones used by governments. She lives in a large, expensive castle.

Answer: A snake

A strange woman wearing gloves, presumably a witch, offers the main character a snake. The boy, terrified, climbs up a tree and stays there for hours.

Answer: Mice

The boy dreams of becoming the owner of a "White Mouse Circus", and trains William and Mary to become tight-rope walkers by putting them on one end of the piece of string, and cake on the other. The mouse walks across the rope and is rewarded with cake. The string is then lengthened, and the process repeated until the mouse is an expert tight-rope walker.

Answer: Her face is terrifying - she wears a mask

The Grand High Witch wears a very realistic mask, because her real face is disgusting. It looks like it was "pickled in vinegar", and is described in the book as shrivelled, putrid, decayed, foul and worm-eaten.

Answer: He cuts off the mouse's tail

The mouse's tail is cut off. He causes quite a commotion, climbing up the leg of a chef and making him take off his trousers.

Answer: Yes

The mouse manages to put the Formula in the witches' soup, and all of them - including the Grand High Witch - turn into mice. The story ends happily, with the mouse and his grandma planning to hunt down all the witches across the world and turn them into mice.