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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. How many important tasks does Muggle-Wump tell his family members that they still have to do before they can all leave their captors forever?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

2. What is Mr. Twit's verbal response to Mrs. Twit's aerial approach?
(a) He gurgles incoherently.
(b) He utters a prayer.
(c) He shouts for help.
(d) He screams her name.

3. What kind of receptacles are used by the enemies of the Twits in order to hold the glue needed for their plan?
(a) Buckets.
(b) Garbage bags.
(c) Egg crates.
(d) Bathtubs.

4. Who warns Roly-Poly when Mr. Twit has applied Hugtight glue to the bars of the monkeys' cage?
(a) Muggle-Wump.
(b) Mrs. Twit.
(c) The monkeys.
(d) Fred.

5. For how many hours each day does Mr. Twit now train his monkeys?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. Muggle-Wump and his family long "to go back to" (41) what location from whence they had come?

2. What word does Dahl add to the title of Chapter 19, No Bird Pie for Mr. Twit, in order to form the title of Chapter 20?

3. When Mr. Twit comes out to find no creatures upon the tree or upon the cage, where are the birds perched instead?

4. The second part of Muggle-Wump's plan to destroy the Twits involves gluing what object to the ceiling?

5. In the illustration of the Twits' yard, there is a ladder leaning against what named feature of the yard's landscaping?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the monkeys and birds gain access to the Twits' house?

2. What room does Muggle-Wump choose to set as bait for the Twits and what informs his decision?

3. What threat does Mr. Twit make against the birds and monkeys before he suggests to Mrs. Twit that they go into town to buy guns?

4. At the start of Chapter 14, the narrator states that "That's enough of that" (32) in relation to a particular topic discussed within the novel thus far. What is that topic?

5. In what way does the illustration of a monkey cage on page 33 serve as an example of foreshadowing?

6. In what way is the theme of teamwork demonstrated in the chapter entitled Hugtight Sticky Glue?

7. What simile is used to describe Muggle-Wump's sense of urgency as he directs the plan to punish the Twits?

8. How do the four boys stuck in The Big Dead Tree escape from Mr. Twit?

9. How are the birds able to find out about the plans Mr. Twit has in store for them?

10. In what way is Mr. Twit outwitted at the beginning of Chpater 21: "Mr. and Mrs. Twit Go Off to Buy Guns"?

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