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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 used in the following sentence from "A Note About Witches": "Then the witch stalks the wretched child like a hunter stalking a little bird in the forest"?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Literary allusion.
(c) Simile.
(d) Metaphor.

2. 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.

3. What color is a witch's spit, according to the narrator's grandmother in "How to Recognize a Witch"?
(a) Red.
(b) Green.
(c) Black.
(d) Blue.

4. The narrator's grandmother tells him in "Hello Grandmamma" that the Grand High Witch makes it a rule to do what at each Annual Meeting?
(a) Fry at least one witch.
(b) Kill at least two children.
(c) Present a new magical formula.
(d) Fry at least 10 witches.

5. The narrator claims in "A Note About Witches" that this story is NOT what?
(a) A mythology.
(b) A true story.
(c) A fairy tale.
(d) A drama.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color mouse does Bruno become in "Bruno Jenkins Disappears"?

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

3. Where were the narrator and his parents when they had a car accident?

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

5. What is the first thing that the Grand High Witch tells her subjects to remove in "Frizzled Like a Fritter"?

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