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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) Consonance.
(b) Assonance.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Literary allusion.

2. What is Bruno eating when the narrator finds him in the ballroom in "Bruno"?
(a) A piece of chicken.
(b) A fish-paste sandwich.
(c) A cupcake.
(d) A peanut-butter sandwich.

3. What object does the Grand High Witch take out once the narrator has been transformed into a mouse in "Metamorphosis"?
(a) A hammer.
(b) A small cage.
(c) A mouse-trap.
(d) A carving-knife.

4. What does the Grand High Witch say never happens to witches in "The Recipe"?
(a) They are never married.
(b) They are never caught.
(c) They are never deceived.
(d) They are never killed.

5. What does the narrator's grandmother claim children should never do in "Hello Grandmamma," calling it a "dangerous habit."
(a) Cross the street alone.
(b) Have baths.
(c) Smoke cigars.
(d) Stay out after dark.

Short Answer Questions

1. Grandma describes witches as being as bald as what in "How to Recognize a Witch"?

2. What is the man carrying when he comes to the narrator's grandmother's house in "The Grand High Witch"?

3. How many encounters with witches does the narrator describe having before he was eight years old in "My Grandmother"?

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

5. How many cars does Bruno claim his family owns, according to the narrator in "Bruno Jenkins Disappears"?

(see the answer key)

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