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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What response do Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins have to the narrator's grandmother's story about Bruno in "Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins Meet Bruno"?

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

3. How does Mrs. Jenkins respond when the narrator's grandmother places Bruno on the table in "Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins Meet Bruno"?

4. What object does the Grand High Witch take out once the narrator has been transformed into a mouse in "Metamorphosis"?

5. What do the cooks do to the plate that is sent back to the kitchen because the meat is too tough in "In the Kitchen"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator escape the Grand High Witch's room in "The Mouse-Burglar"?

2. Who is Bruno Jenkins? What are the narrator's opinions of this character?

3. How does the narrator escape the kitchen in "In the Kitchen"?

4. Where does the narrator find the vials in the Grand High Witch's room in "The Mouse-Burglar"? How does he obtain one of the vials?

5. How does the narrator's grandmother respond when she sees his transformed appearance in "Hello Grandmamma"?

6. How does the narrator describe his mission in "The Plan"?

7. How does the Grand High Witch detail the witches' agenda in "The Ancient Ones"?

8. What does the narrator note about the frogs he encounters in the Grand High Witch's room in "The Mouse-Burglar"?

9. What do the narrator and Bruno decide to do next at the end of "Bruno"? Why?

10. How would you describe the characters of Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the narrator become trapped in the Banquet hall during the Annual Meeting of the Society of Witches? What does the narrator note about these meeting attendees upon their arrival? How do his perceptions change of the attendees of the meeting?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the narrator's grandmother in The Witches. How old is the narrator's grandmother? Where does she live? How does this character differ from other grandmothers for the narrator?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the plot structure of The Witches. Where in the novel is the exposition? Where does the rising action begin? Where is the climax of the novel? What information is revealed in the falling action and denouement?

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