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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Bruno Jenkins Disappears" – "Hello Grandmamma".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Consonance.
(d) Assonance.

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

3. What gives off the most ghastly stench to a witch, according to the narrator's grandmother in "How to Recognize a Witch"?
(a) A dirty child.
(b) A clean child.
(c) A cat.
(d) A mouse.

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

5. What does the Grand High Witch instruct her subjects to fry the mouse tails in when making Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker?
(a) Coconut oil.
(b) Hair oil.
(c) Baby oil.
(d) Olive oil.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator's grandmother ask him about Bruno in "Hello Grandmamma"?

2. For what time does the Grand High Witch say she has set the alarm clock for her demonstration in "Bruno Jenkins Disappears"?

3. What did the narrator observe Bruno doing the day before in the hotel terrace in "Bruno Jenkins Disappears"?

4. Of Bruno, the Grand High Witch says that he is not only smelly but also what?

5. What does the Grand High Witch discern about the mice on the platform in "The Recipe"?

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