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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 is Hannah doing on the special day in Question 151?

2. Where does Tyler encounter Bethany?

3. What does Tyler return to Janitor Joe?

4. What word is misspelled on the football field?

5. What does Tyler's father demand when he gets home before the football game?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Tyler's father comes home the night of the homecoming game?

2. Why can't Tyler and Hannah sleep, and what does Hannah tell Tyler when she comes to his room?

3. What transpires in the meeting with Tyler, the principal, and Tyler's mother?

4. What does Tyler do when he finds Bethany, Chip, and Parker passed out?

5. What do the individual members of Tyler's family do on homecoming night?

6. How do many of the students treat Tyler in school, and how do Hannah and Yoda try to help him feel better?

7. How does Tyler feel after the party, and what does he do?

8. What happens when Tyler returns from the basement with the dictionary?

9. How does Tyler confront Chip, and what happens when he encounters Bethany?

10. What does Tyler do in his father's bedroom?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Tyler finally decides to take control of his own life. First, he needs to work out some aggression in a positive way, rather than berating himself or attacking others. He goes to a batting cage.

1. Discuss reasons why you think Tyler has so much anger and aggression in him. Use examples from your own life and Twisted to support your answer.

2. Discuss various other ways Tyler could work out his aggression, besides hitting baseballs. Use examples from your own life and Twisted to support your answer.

3. Discuss, in depth, why Tyler's confrontation with Chip is healing for Tyler. Use examples Twisted to support your answer.

4. Do you think that, by the end of Twisted, Tyler has solved all his problems? Why or why not? Refer to Twist's text to support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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