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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. Where does Tyler go after the party?

2. Why does Tyler feel he is in heaven?

3. What does Tyler do when his father starts to yell at him?

4. What does Hannah tell Tyler just before she falls asleep?

5. What is Hannah doing on the special day in Question 151?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Bethany invite Tyler to do a couple of weeks later?

3. What does Tyler realize as he is contemplating suicide in his father's bedroom?

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

5. What happens when Tyler is called to Mr. Hughes' office?

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

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

8. Describe Tyler's confrontation with his father in the basement

9. Where do Yoda and Tyler go after the batting cage, and what does Tyler do?

10. Why does Hannah come into Tyler's room when he is playing Tophet?

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

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 3

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?

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