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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-25: "Mr. & Mrs. Twit Go Off to Buy Guns" - "The Furniture Goes Up".

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 faints.
(b) He screams.
(c) He jumps.
(d) He punches a hole in the wall.

2. From what location does the Roly-Poly Bird hail?
(a) Venezuela.
(b) Australia.
(c) Peru.
(d) Africa.

3. In the beginning of Chapter 13, entitled Mr. Twit Gets a Horrid Shock, Mr. Twit is celebrating Mrs. Twit's absence with what beverage in hand?
(a) A glass of champagne.
(b) A glass of wine.
(c) A cold soda pop.
(d) A beer.

4. Chapter 10 is entitled Mrs. Twit Gets a what?
(a) Squeezing.
(b) Stretching.
(c) Shoving.
(d) Zapping.

5. When Muggle-Wump apologizes to Roly-Poly for bringing up the upsetting subject of Bird Pie, what reason does he give for his faux pas?
(a) He says that he had been too excited to know what he was saying.
(b) He says that he had forgotten the subject was upsetting to Roly-Poly.
(c) He says that he had been talking about a different kind of bird pie.
(d) He says that he had not known that Roly-Poly was in the room.

Short Answer Questions

1. What simile does Dahl use to characterize the way in which kind thoughts "shine out of [one's] face" (9)?

2. Mrs. Twit carries what object in her right hand?

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

4. 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)?

5. The narrator states at the beginning of Chapter 12 that though Mrs. Twit may be "ugly" and "beastly" (27), she does not exhibit what characteristic?

(see the answer key)

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