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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-20: "Mr. Twit Gets a Horrid Shock" - "Still No Bird Pie for Mr. Twit" .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Mr. Twit comes outside to collect his bounty the morning after Roly-Poly warns the birds, Mr. Twit finds a great number of birds sitting in what location?
(a) On top of his mailbox.
(b) On top of the monkey cage.
(c) The limbs of the Big Dead Tree.
(d) All over The Crispy Old Hammock.

2. When Mr. Twit points out that Mrs. Twit's feet are dangling in the air, what is her reaction?
(a) She laughs uproariously.
(b) She denies it vehemently.
(c) She turns white with fear.
(d) She shrieks loudly.

3. What simile does Dahl use to characterize the way in which kind thoughts "shine out of [one's] face" (9)?
(a) Like headlights.
(b) Like rainbows.
(c) Like sunbeams.
(d) Like prisms.

4. The narrator reveals that before they had retired, the Twits had both worked for what type of organization?
(a) A circus.
(b) A garbage dump.
(c) A zoo.
(d) An aquarium.

5. Mrs. Twit gives Mr. Twit another nasty idea when she tells him that if the strings around her ankles break, "it will be" (26) for her?
(a) Curtains.
(b) Sayonara.
(c) Goodbye.
(d) Heaven.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who warns Roly-Poly when Mr. Twit has applied Hugtight glue to the bars of the monkeys' cage?

2. Muggle-Wump and his family long "to go back to" (41) what location from whence they had come?

3. How does the narrator describe the number of food particles dwelling inside of Mr. Twit's beard?

4. From what location does the Roly-Poly Bird hail?

5. What is NOT a name Mrs. Twit calls Mr. Twit as she descends from the sky?

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