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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. Approximately how many children does a "real witch" kill each year, according to the narrator in "A Note About Witches"?
(a) 68.
(b) 10.
(c) 25.
(d) 52.

2. What does the Grand High Witch discern about the mice on the platform in "The Recipe"?
(a) They are formerly grown-ups.
(b) They are pet mice.
(c) They are spies.
(d) They are secretly witches.

3. Who presumably will "bump off the stinking little children," according to the Grand High Witch's plan in "The Recipe"?
(a) Their parents.
(b) Other children.
(c) Their teachers.
(d) The police.

4. 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?
(a) Six.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

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 is Bruno wearing when he enters the Ballroom in "Bruno Jenkins Disappears"?

2. What does the narrator do when the chambermaid goes to pick up the shoe he is hiding in, in "Hello Grandmamma"?

3. How are the houses described that "real witches" live in, in "A Note About Witches"?

4. What does the Grand High Witch instruct her subjects to boil the tailless mice in when making Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker?

5. What does the narrator's grandmother claim children should never do in "Hello Grandmamma," calling it a "dangerous habit."

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