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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-12: "Wormy Spaghetti" - "Mrs. Twit Goes Ballooning Down".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What day of the week does the narrator name as the day when Mr. Twit certainly never deigns to wash his beard?
(a) Sunday.
(b) Saturday.
(c) Wednesday.
(d) Friday.

2. What verb does Mr. Twit use to describe the only existing "cure for The Shrinks" (23)?
(a) Shove.
(b) Squeeze.
(c) Surgery.
(d) Stretch.

3. 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 bicycle bump to blow them up.
(c) He uses a gas cylinder to blow them up.
(d) He blows them up himself.

4. While still attached to the ground, Mrs. Twit exclaims that there is enough pull present to take her to what location?
(a) China.
(b) Nantucket.
(c) The moon.
(d) Cucamonga.

5. Mrs. Twit tells Mr. Twit that whenever he goes quiet, she knows that he is taking what action?
(a) Reading.
(b) Feeling sorry for himself.
(c) Plotting.
(d) Taking a nap.

Short Answer Questions

1. In order to play a trick on Mr. Twit, Mrs. Twit puts her glass eye into what location?

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

3. How does Mr. Twit revive Mrs. Twit when she faints due to fear?

4. How does the narrator describe the number of food particles dwelling inside of Mr. Twit's beard?

5. What impetus does the narrator suggest causes a person to display an ugly appearance?

(see the answer key)

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