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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. While the frog sleeps on Mrs. Twit's pillow, she spends the night in what location?
(a) At her sister's house.
(b) On the sofa.
(c) In the closet.
(d) In the bathtub.

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

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

4. 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?
(a) Mean and nasty.
(b) Stinky and rotten.
(c) Foul and smelly.
(d) Conniving and cunning.

5. To what other object had Mr. Twit secretly been applying small wooden discs?
(a) The legs of Mrs. Twit's chair.
(b) The legs of the monkey cage.
(c) The legs of the dining room table.
(d) The legs of his own chair.

Short Answer Questions

1. What pet name does Mr. Twit call Mrs. Twit just before he cuts the strings around her ankles?

2. What object does Dahl use within his simile indicating the speed with which Mrs. Twit flies into the air once Mr. Twit has cut the strings?

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

4. At what time does Mrs. Twit make lunch on the day she serves worms to Mr. Twit?

5. How many balloons does Mr. Twit prepare for Mrs. Twit's cure?

(see the answer key)

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