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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-25: "Mr. & Mrs. Twit Go Off to Buy Guns" - "The Furniture Goes Up".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what day of the week does Roly-Poly first sing a song to warn the birds about the Hugtight trap?
(a) Friday.
(b) Sunday.
(c) Thursday.
(d) Tuesday.

2. What word does Dahl add to the title of Chapter 19, No Bird Pie for Mr. Twit, in order to form the title of Chapter 20?
(a) Please.
(b) Always.
(c) Still.
(d) Never.

3. How long does Mr. Twit wait between his first failed attempt at catching birds with Hugtight and his next attempt?
(a) He tries again about two weeks later.
(b) He tries again the same day.
(c) He tries again the following week.
(d) He tries again the following day.

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

5. The narrator states that when bearded men wash their beards, the job must be as complex as what other task enacted by people without beards?
(a) Washing their cars.
(b) Cutting their toenails.
(c) Shampooing their hair.
(d) Setting mousetraps.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Mr. Twit sees Mrs. Twit descending from the sky, he jumps "as though" (30) what event has taken place?

2. Muggle-Wump knows where the spare key to the Twits' house is because he has seen which person putting it under the doormat?

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

4. What is the first piece of furniture glued onto the ceiling during the enactment of Muggle-Wump's plan to destroy the Twits?

5. Mrs. Twit suggests that she and Mr. Twit buy themselves what type of weapons?

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