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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. In how much time is the alarm clock set to go off in the formula for the Grand High Witch's demonstration in "Bruno Jenkins Disappears"?
(a) Seven minutes.
(b) 20 minutes.
(c) Five minutes.
(d) Ten minutes.

2. What does the narrator tell his grandmother the witches are pretending to be in "Hello Grandmamma"?
(a) The European Society for the Rights of Women.
(b) The British Society for Prevention of Childhood Poverty.
(c) The Women's Society for the Betterment of Education.
(d) The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

3. Grandma describes witches as being as bald as what in "How to Recognize a Witch"?
(a) A boiled egg.
(b) An old man.
(c) A cucumber.
(d) A baby.

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

5. 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) Assonance.
(d) Consonance.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Approximately how many "real witches" exist in England today, according to the narrator in "A Note About Witches"?

4. What is the name of the manager of the Hotel Magnificent?

5. What is a person called that studies witches?

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