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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 many hours of homework does Tyler figure he has that night?

2. How does Tyler fall into a group of waiters with trays full of glasses?

3. What is Tyler doing in his room in Chapter Eight?

4. What foul deed has the narrator done?

5. What does Hannah do for Tyler?

Short Essay Questions

1. How much homework does Tyler figure he has on his first night of the new school year, and what does he think he needs to do about his course schedule?

2. What is Tyler's course schedule like this year, and why is it that way?

3. What does Tyler's mother make for the Milbury's, and how is Tyler to help her?

4. How does Tyler act when Bethany comes over to say hello to Tyler's mother?

5. Why does Yoda volunteer to be the manager of the JV football team?

6. How do Tyler and Hannah get to school, and why is Yoda distracted driving the car?

7. What is Tyler forced to wear for the Christmas photo shoot, and why does the session not happen?

8. What is the result of Chip pushing Tyler?

9. Describe why Tyler has to rescue Yoda in the boy's locker room.

10. What is the video-game scenario that Tyler is playing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Often a book has a plot that more character driven than action driven, and often it is the other way around. Some books seem to balance the two types of plots. Discuss the following:

1. What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven? Action driven?

2. How do you think a plot differs if it is character driven versus action driven?

3. Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why?

4. Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character development share equal time? Why or why not.

5. What type of plot do you think Twisted is? Explain your response.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss one of the following:

1. Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in Twisted.

2. Trace and analyze one major theme of Twisted. How is the theme represented by imagery? By the character development? By the action?

3. Trace and analyze two secondary themes of Twisted. How are the themes represented by imagery? By the character development? By the action?

Essay Topic 3

The scene with the gun in Tyler's father's bedroom is enlightening. Tyler has long tried to fulfill his father's image. He is trying to live up to his father's expectations and everyone else's. He feels that he has failed. Then, he realizes that he is bigger than they are, not less, and that he can be more than what they think. It takes him putting the gun in his mouth and debating to realize that this is not what he wants.

1. Discuss the ways in which you see Tyler attempting to fulfill his father's image. Use examples from Twisted to support your answer.

2. Discuss why it might not be healthy for someone to try to live up to other people's expectations. Use examples from your own life and Twisted to support your answer.

3. Discuss the ways in which Tyler might be considered bigger than those who harass him or do not believe in him. Use examples from Twisted to support your answer.

4. Looking ahead five years in Tyler's life, when he is around 23, how do you think his life will be different from what it was up until he was eighteen, due to the awareness he had in the bedroom? Use examples from Twisted to support your answer.

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