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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 adjective does the narrator use to describe the pieces of green cheese residing within Mr. Twit's beard?
(a) Maggoty.
(b) Petrified.
(c) Awful.
(d) Putrid.

2. How does Mrs. Twit initially react when she feels the frog's presence?
(a) She threatens Mr. Twit.
(b) She smashes the frog.
(c) She runs out of the house.
(d) She screams.

3. When Mr. Twit declares that his spaghetti is moving, Mrs. Twit tells him that the spaghetti is a new what?
(a) Brand.
(b) Invention.
(c) Fad.
(d) Kind.

4. From what location does Mrs. Twit acquire the worms she needs for the prank she wants to pull on Mr. Twit?
(a) From the gas station.
(b) From the garden.
(c) From the garbage dump.
(d) From the hardware store.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what other object had Mr. Twit secretly been applying small wooden discs?

2. The narrator states that when bearded men wash their beards, the job must be as complex as what other task enacted by people without beards?

3. Mrs. Twit gives Mr. Twit another nasty idea when she tells him that if the strings around her ankles break, "it will be" (26) for her?

4. When Mr. Twit expresses his dislike of the texture of the new spaghetti, he uses what adjective to describe it?

5. Mrs. Twit tells Mr. Twit that whenever he goes quiet, she knows that he is taking what action?

Short Essay Questions

1. What third part of Mr. Twit's shrinking prank plan is revealed within Chapter 10, entitled Mrs. Twit Gets a Stretching?

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

3. 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?

4. How does the theme of secrecy emerge within Roald Dahl's discussion of bearded men within Chapter 1, entitled Hairy Faces?

5. For what purpose does the author include a diagram of Mr. Twit's mouth within Chapter 3, entitled Dirty Beards?

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

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

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

9. How does the trick featured within Chapter 8, entitled The Funny Walking Stick, take the pranks in the novel to another level of cruelty?

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

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