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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What impetus does the narrator suggest causes a person to display an ugly appearance?
(a) Greed.
(b) Ugly thoughts.
(c) Selfishness.
(d) Sloth.

2. What simile does Dahl use to characterize the way in which kind thoughts "shine out of [one's] face" (9)?
(a) Like sunbeams.
(b) Like rainbows.
(c) Like prisms.
(d) Like headlights.

3. How does the narrator describe the number of food particles dwelling inside of Mr. Twit's beard?
(a) Scores.
(b) Thousands.
(c) Scads.
(d) Hundreds.

4. What is NOT an action Mrs. Twit takes after she announces to Mr. Twit that he has been eating worms?
(a) Clapping her hands.
(b) Pointing at Mr. Twit's angry face.
(c) Rocking with laughter.
(d) Stamping her feet.

5. How many birds come "flying in from miles around" (28) to stare at Mrs. Twit descending from the sky?
(a) Hundreds.
(b) Flocks.
(c) Thousands.
(d) Scores.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. While still attached to the ground, Mrs. Twit exclaims that there is enough pull present to take her to what location?

3. After how many balloons are attached to Mrs. Twit does she become completely incapacitated?

4. While the frog sleeps on Mrs. Twit's pillow, she spends the night in what location?

5. What object does Mrs. Twit use to systematically sever the strings attached to the balloons?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the alphabetical part of the text within Chapter 3 embellish the details depicted within the diagram of Mr. Twit's mouth in the same chapter?

2. How is the theme of deception depicted within Mrs. Twit's statements about her walking stick?

3. What extra part of Mr. Twit's walking stick prank plan is revealed within Chapter 9, entitled Mrs. Twit Has the Shrinks?

4. In Chapter 12, entitled Mrs. Twit Goes Ballooning Down, the narrator uses the first sentence of the chapter to state two characteristics Mrs. Twit displays and one that she does not display. What are these three qualities?

5. For what reason does the author provide a second illustration beneath the diagram showing the degradation of Mrs. Twit's looks over time?

6. How is Mr. Twit's complete lack of compassion for Mrs. Twit demonstrated within Chapter 9, entitled Mrs. Twit Has the Shrinks?

7. Who plays the trick depicted in Chapter 7 entitled The Wormy Spaghetti and what is the trick?

8. What is really in Mrs. Twit's bed when Mr. Twit tells her there must be a "Giant Skillywiggler" (12) in her bed?

9. How is irony present in the one time Mr. Twit calls his wife by a pet name within the novel?

10. How often does Mr. Twit wash his beard?

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