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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Mr. Jenkins and His Son" – "It’s Off to Work We Go".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the ingredient in Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker that causes its delayed action?
(a) The wrong end of a telescope.
(b) A pigeon brain.
(c) A dog collar.
(d) An alarm clock.

2. Where were the narrator and his parents when they had a car accident?
(a) North of Oslo.
(b) South of London.
(c) Norht of Paris.
(d) In the French Alps.

3. What does Bruno begin eating when the narrator's grandmother puts him on the table in "Hello Grandmamma"?
(a) A loaf of bread.
(b) A tomato.
(c) An apple.
(d) A banana.

4. What happened to the third child that the grandmother knew who was taken by witches?
(a) She turned into a frog.
(b) She turned into stone.
(c) She turned into a porpoise.
(d) She turned into a chicken.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator's grandmother compare the society of witches to in "It’s Off to Work We Go!"?

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

3. What does the narrator's grandmother say American witches are capable of making grown-ups do in "The Grand High Witch"?

4. What kind of egg is added when making Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker?

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

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