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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-20: "Mr. Twit Gets a Horrid Shock" - "Still No Bird Pie for Mr. Twit" .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mr. Twit react when he finds Mrs. Twit's glass eye in the place where she had hidden it?
(a) He screams.
(b) He faints.
(c) He punches a hole in the wall.
(d) He jumps.

2. When Mrs. Twit awakens after fainting, what object is on her face?
(a) A monkey.
(b) A clothespin.
(c) A fish.
(d) A frog.

3. Mr. Twit tells Mrs. Twit that the ultimate result of The Shrinks is that there is nothing left of the afflicted person, "except" (22) what objects?
(a) A set of false teeth and a glass eye.
(b) A pair of underwear and a cape.
(c) A pair of shoes and a bundle of clothes.
(d) A hat and a coat.

4. How does Mr. Twit fill the balloons he has prepared for Mrs. Twit's cure?
(a) He forces the monkeys to blow them up.
(b) He uses a gas cylinder to blow them up.
(c) He blows them up himself.
(d) He uses a bicycle bump to blow them up.

5. How many men does the narrator say have beards?
(a) A plethora.
(b) Scads.
(c) Very few.
(d) A lot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT an object the narrator lists among the objects Mrs. Twit likes to strike using the object she carries in her right hand?

2. At the end of the chapter focusing on the state of Mr. Twit's beard, the narrator states, "What I'm trying to tell you is that Mr. Twit" (7) is what kind of an old man?

3. When Mr. Twit announces to Mrs. Twit that she has contracted a dreaded disease called The Shrinks, she has to take what action due to feeling "trembly" (20)?

4. Mr. Twit's beard hair is described by the narrator as sticking "out straight like the bristles of a" (4) what?

5. When Mr. Twit declares that his spaghetti is moving, Mrs. Twit tells him that the spaghetti is a new what?

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