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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. What word does Muggle-Wump's child use to describe his plan, causing Muggle-Wump to tell the child to shut up?

2. Mrs. Twit suggests that she and Mr. Twit buy themselves what type of weapons?

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

4. Whose favorite meal is Bird Pie?

5. What word is used to describe Muggle-Wump's smile as he tells the others his plan to destroy the Twits?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. Besides Muggle-Wump, his family, and the Roly-Poly Bird, who else helps with the plan to punish the Twits?

3. Before Roly-Poly's arrival, Muggle-Wump had always tried to warn the birds about Mr. Twit's glue traps, but he had always been unsuccessful due to what reason?

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

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

6. What does Mr. Twit tell the four boys stuck in The Big Dead Tree that he is going to do to them for scaring away the birds?

7. In what way does Mr. Twit react to Mrs. Twit's reappearance as she descends from the sky?

8. What reason is given for Mr. Twits' continued ownership of monkeys and how much time each day does he spend with the monkeys as a result of this goal?

9. What element of the Twits' history is revealed for the first time in the chapter entitled The Great Upside-Down Monkey Circus?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

What is the novel's message concerning the link between thoughts and appearance?

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