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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 does Tyler tell his father Tyler is going to do?

2. Where does Hannah go after dinner?

3. Who makes out with Bethany as Tyler is trying to get her home?

4. What does Tyler's mother defend in the principal's office?

5. Where does Tyler have to go during school the next day?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Tyler apologize to Bethany, and what is her response?

3. Why does Tyler mow the lawn, and what happens at the bonfire?

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

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

6. Why does Tyler walk to a party and what is it like when he arrives?

7. How does Tyler feel about life when he wakes one morning, and what does he contemplate doing?

8. What does Tyler tell his guidance counselor, and what is the counselor's response?

9. Why do the police come to Tyler's house, and what do they do?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Over the course of Twisted, Tyler grows as a person in both complexity and understanding. Twisted might be considered a slice of Tyler's larger "coming of age" story. It might be said that Twisted is a "bildungsroman" of Tyler Miller. Discuss the following:

1. Define bildungsroman/coming-of-age literature as a genre and give several examples from literature you have read.

2. Trace and analyze the character of Tyler as he changes from an angry, depressed boy to a wiser, more mature young man. What are the significant events that change Tyler?

3. Are there any other characters in Twisted who go through a coming-of-age experience? Who? Why do you think so?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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