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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. 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 his own chair.
(d) The legs of the dining room table.

2. In what location does Mr. Twit decide to place a frog in order to play a trick on Mrs. Twit?
(a) In her bed.
(b) In her breakfast.
(c) In the pocket of her robe.
(d) In her laundry basket.

3. Mr. Twit tells Mrs. Twit that the ultimate result of The Shrinks is that there is nothing left of the afflicted person, "except" (22) what objects?
(a) A set of false teeth and a glass eye.
(b) A pair of shoes and a bundle of clothes.
(c) A pair of underwear and a cape.
(d) A hat and a coat.

4. After how many balloons are attached to Mrs. Twit does she become completely incapacitated?
(a) 40.
(b) 12.
(c) 300.
(d) 60.

5. 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?
(a) Rocket.
(b) Cannon.
(c) Firecracker.
(d) Catapult.

Short Answer Questions

1. What adjective does the narrator use to describe the pieces of green cheese residing within Mr. Twit's beard?

2. How many bearded men are featured in the very first illustration included within The Twits, before Chapter 1 begins?

3. How does Mr. Twit fill the balloons he has prepared for Mrs. Twit's cure?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Dahl inject the scene within Chapter 11, entitled Mrs. Twit Goes Ballooning Up, with a sinister mood?

2. 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?

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. What method does Mrs. Twit use to engineer her descent?

5. How does Dahl encourage curiosity in his young reader within Chapter 1, entitled Hairy Faces?

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

7. What dramatic change has Mrs. Twit undergone since her youth and what is the reason for the change?

8. How does Mr. Twit think his hairy face affects his overall appearance and how does the narrator contradict Mr. Twit's point of view?

9. How does Mrs. Twit use her glass eye to amuse herself?

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

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