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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. What adjective does the narrator use to describe the pieces of green cheese residing within Mr. Twit's beard?
(a) Putrid.
(b) Maggoty.
(c) Petrified.
(d) Awful.

2. At the end of the chapter focusing on the state of Mr. Twit's beard, the narrator states, "What I'm trying to tell you is that Mr. Twit" (7) is what kind of an old man?
(a) Stinky and rotten.
(b) Foul and smelly.
(c) Mean and nasty.
(d) Conniving and cunning.

3. At what time of day does Roly-Poly fly around the tree and the cage, singing warnings to the other birds?
(a) At noon.
(b) At midnight.
(c) At daybreak.
(d) At sundown.

4. Mrs. Twit stays still in the air after she has severed how many balloon strings?
(a) 200.
(b) 80.
(c) 20.
(d) 60.

5. When stating that "things cling to hairs" (5) in beards, the narrator states that what types of objects in particular stick to beard hairs?
(a) Lice.
(b) Dandruff.
(c) Food particles.
(d) Dust bunnies.

Short Answer Questions

1. The wooden discs that Mr. Twit uses to lengthen Mrs. Twit's walking stick are described as being "no thicker than" (18) what object?

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

3. What object does Dahl use within his simile indicating the speed with which Mrs. Twit flies into the air once Mr. Twit has cut the strings?

4. At what time does Mrs. Twit make lunch on the day she serves worms to Mr. Twit?

5. What is Mr. Twit's verbal response to Mrs. Twit's aerial approach?

(see the answer key)

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