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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 every woman in the room wearing in "The Meeting"?
(a) Spiked heels.
(b) Capes.
(c) Gloves.
(d) Aprons.

2. What is the Grand High Witch's hotel room number?
(a) 425.
(b) 444.
(c) 454.
(d) 554.

3. What does the narrator's grandmother ask him about Bruno in "Hello Grandmamma"?
(a) "How many siblings does he have?"
(b) "Was he turned into a porpoise?"
(c) "Does he never stop eating?"
(d) "Is he a very intelligent boy?"

4. 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) Assonance.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Consonance.

5. On what floor of the hotel does the narrator say his grandmother's room is in "Hello Grandmamma"?
(a) The 2nd floor.
(b) The 3rd floor.
(c) The 5th floor.
(d) The 4th floor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What instrument is used when the narrator is injured in "In the Kitchen"?

2. Approximately how many children does a "real witch" kill each year, according to the narrator in "A Note About Witches"?

3. What are the witches ordered to buy after returning to their home towns in "Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker"?

4. What happened to the fourth child that the narrator's grandmother knows who was taken by witches?

5. Where does the narrator go to hide when the Grand High Witch comes into her hotel room in "The Mouse-Burglar"?

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