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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. How does Mrs. Twit initially react when she feels the frog's presence?
(a) She threatens Mr. Twit.
(b) She runs out of the house.
(c) She smashes the frog.
(d) She screams.

2. When Mr. Twit expresses his dislike of the texture of the new spaghetti, he uses what adjective to describe it?
(a) He says it is too smelly.
(b) He says it is too grainy.
(c) He says it is too squishy.
(d) He says it is too mobile.

3. To what other object had Mr. Twit secretly been applying small wooden discs?
(a) The legs of Mrs. Twit's chair.
(b) The legs of the monkey cage.
(c) The legs of his own chair.
(d) The legs of the dining room table.

4. At what time does Mrs. Twit make lunch on the day she serves worms to Mr. Twit?
(a) 11 o'clock.
(b) Noon.
(c) 1 o'clock.
(d) 2 o'clock.

5. 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) The limbs of the Big Dead Tree.
(b) On top of the monkey cage.
(c) All over The Crispy Old Hammock.
(d) On top of his mailbox.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which longtime collaborative partner of Roald Dahl created the illustrations for The Twits?

2. Mr. Twit tells Mrs. Twit that the ultimate result of The Shrinks is that there is nothing left of the afflicted person, "except" (22) what objects?

3. The narrator states at the beginning of Chapter 12 that though Mrs. Twit may be "ugly" and "beastly" (27), she does not exhibit what characteristic?

4. For what reason do Muggle-Wump's efforts to warn the birds about the Hugtight never succeed?

5. With what object does Mrs. Twit attack Mr. Twit when she descends upon him?

(see the answer key)

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