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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Mrs. Twit carries what object in her right hand?
2. Mrs. Twit tells Mr. Twit that whenever he goes quiet, she knows that he is taking what action?
3. How many men does the narrator say have beards?
4. In order to play a trick on Mr. Twit, Mrs. Twit puts her glass eye into what location?
5. To what other object had Mr. Twit secretly been applying small wooden discs?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. How does Mr. Twit think his hairy face affects his overall appearance and how does the narrator contradict Mr. Twit's point of view?
3. What method does Mrs. Twit use to engineer her descent?
4. 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?
5. How is the theme of deception depicted within Mrs. Twit's statements about her walking stick?
6. What dramatic change has Mrs. Twit undergone since her youth and what is the reason for the change?
7. How does Mrs. Twit use her glass eye to amuse herself?
8. How is irony present in the one time Mr. Twit calls his wife by a pet name within the novel?
9. For what purpose does the author include a diagram of Mr. Twit's mouth within Chapter 3, entitled Dirty Beards?
10. For what reason does the author provide a second illustration beneath the diagram showing the degradation of Mrs. Twit's looks over time?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Determine the author's message regarding the idea that animals should retain their freedom by living in the wild.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss how and why Roald Dahl instills three different humanist messages into the narrative of his novel The Twits.
Essay Topic 3
William Faulkner once famously claimed that the most important literature deals with the subject of the human heart in conflict with itself. Explain how the theme of Human versus Self is demonstrated within Roald Dahl's novel The Twits. Create a decisive, arguable claim and prove it with quotes from the novel.
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