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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. Which character in The Twits has a beard?
2. What reason does Mrs. Twit give to others when they ask why she needs to carry the object she always carries in her right hand?
3. To what other object had Mr. Twit secretly been applying small wooden discs?
4. After how many balloons are attached to Mrs. Twit does she become completely incapacitated?
5. When Mrs. Twit awakens after fainting, what object is on her face?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
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. How does the trick featured within Chapter 8, entitled The Funny Walking Stick, take the pranks in the novel to another level of cruelty?
4. How does Mrs. Twit use her glass eye to amuse herself?
5. Who plays the trick depicted in Chapter 7 entitled The Wormy Spaghetti and what is the trick?
6. What third part of Mr. Twit's shrinking prank plan is revealed within Chapter 10, entitled Mrs. Twit Gets a Stretching?
7. What is the impetus for Mr. Twit's idea about releasing Mrs. Twit into the atmosphere?
8. How does Dahl encourage curiosity in his young reader within Chapter 1, entitled Hairy Faces?
9. How and why does Dahl utilize the second person point of view within Chapter 8, entitled The Funny Walking Stick?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
How does the theme of cruelty function within the novel and what are Dahl’s messages regarding this theme?
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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