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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. How does Mr. Twit react when he finds Mrs. Twit's glass eye in the place where she had hidden it?

2. 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?

3. How does the narrator describe the weather on the day of Mrs. Twit's flight?

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

5. How many birds come "flying in from miles around" (28) to stare at Mrs. Twit descending from the sky?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. For what reason does the author provide a second illustration beneath the diagram showing the degradation of Mrs. Twit's looks over time?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Could Roald Dahl's novel The Twits be classified as a horror novel? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze the interplay between the resolution of Roald Dahl's novel The Twits and one of the novel's main messages. How does Dahl make connections between these elements and how does their juxtaposition help him get across one main message of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

How is the theme of altruism demonstrated within the novel The Twits?

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