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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. When Mr. Twit points out that Mrs. Twit's feet are dangling in the air, what is her reaction?

2. What conclusion does the narrator draw about the fact that Mrs. Twit does not have a beard?

3. Mr. Twit tells Mrs. Twit that she probably has about how long to live due to contracting The Shrinks?

4. In order to play a trick on Mr. Twit, Mrs. Twit puts her glass eye into what location?

5. In what location does Mr. Twit decide to place a frog in order to play a trick on Mrs. Twit?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the impetus for Mr. Twit's idea about releasing Mrs. Twit into the atmosphere?

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

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

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

6. How does the trickster react to seeing the tricked person unknowingly eat worms?

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

8. 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?

9. How and why does Dahl utilize the second person point of view within Chapter 8, entitled The Funny Walking Stick?

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

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

Discuss the reasons why Roald Dahl's novel The Twits utilizes a third person omniscient narrator who sometimes communicates directly with the reader using the second person point of view. What elements of the novel's themes lend themselves to this choice and what is Dahl's intended effect on the reader?

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