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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 do Tyler and Hannah get to school?
2. Why is Chip unhappy when he arrives home?
3. About what does Tyler confront his father?
4. What does Tyler hear Yoda doing after school?
5. Who does Yoda have a crush on?
Short Essay Questions
1. About what do Tyler and Hannah disagree on the first day of school, and who wins the argument?
2. 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?
3. Describe why Tyler has to rescue Yoda in the boy's locker room.
4. Why happens when Tyler is called into Mr. Hughes' office in Chapter Thirty?
5. What happens when Tyler delivers the cake to the Milbury's home?
6. How does Bethany's presence in Tyler's life make school bearable for him?
7. What happens in Hannah's field hockey game and how does her dad respond?
8. What does Bethany do in the cafeteria one day at lunch that makes Tyler glad to be alive?
9. Why does Yoda volunteer to be the manager of the JV football team?
10. What happens when Chip Milbury sees Tyler?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the following:
1. In your opinion, what are the characteristics of a successful novel?
2. Analyze and discuss Twisted based upon the criteria you list in #1 and judge if Twisted is a successful novel.
3. Do you think the criteria for a successful novel should be different if the novel is written for adults versus young adults? Why or why not? Would most adults consider Twisted a successful novel? What about young teens?
Essay Topic 2
Is Tyler's life really so bad that he should commit suicide? Tyler decides it would be easier to just run away. He thinks that this will solve his problems, and that he can have a new start. Running away as a solution is not atypical for some teenagers; he isn't alone in these feelings. While, things in his life are worse than for many, running away rarely solves a person's problems. Would it really be a clean start? Would he really get to have a better life?
1. Do you think suicide is ever justified? If not, why not? If so, do you believe that Tyler's life is bad enough to commit suicide over? Why or why not? Use examples from your own life and Twisted to support your answer.
2. Discuss, in depth, why running away, literally or figuratively, does not necessarily solve a person's problems. Use examples from your own life and Twisted to support your answer.
4. Do you agree with Janitor Joe's assessment of Tyler? Why or why not? Use examples from your own life and Twisted to support your answer.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the following:
1. Define the literary term "genre," and name and give several examples of three other genres in addition to the youth novel genre.
2. Discuss two reasons why it might be useful to label a text by genre and two reasons it might be disadvantageous. Give examples, if possible.
3. What do you think is the difference between a youth novel and an historical novel or a mystery? In your opinion, can a novel represent more than one genre?
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