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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason does the narrator suggest for certain men's decisions to wear beards?
(a) They want to hide their appearance.
(b) They want to keep their faces warm.
(c) They like to have a method for saving food.
(d) They think they look masculine.

2. How does Mr. Twit react when he finds Mrs. Twit's glass eye in the place where she had hidden it?
(a) He faints.
(b) He screams.
(c) He punches a hole in the wall.
(d) He jumps.

3. After how many balloons are attached to Mrs. Twit does she become completely incapacitated?
(a) 300.
(b) 40.
(c) 12.
(d) 60.

4. How many birds come "flying in from miles around" (28) to stare at Mrs. Twit descending from the sky?
(a) Hundreds.
(b) Flocks.
(c) Scores.
(d) Thousands.

5. In the illustration of Mrs. Twit as she drools with fear at the prospect of having The Shrinks, what object is she holding in one hand?
(a) Her walking stick.
(b) A frog.
(c) A pillow.
(d) A pistol.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many men does the narrator say have beards?

2. How does the narrator describe the weather on the day of Mrs. Twit's flight?

3. From what location does Mrs. Twit acquire the worms she needs for the prank she wants to pull on Mr. Twit?

4. What impetus does the narrator suggest causes a person to display an ugly appearance?

5. After Mrs. Twit has soared off into the sky, Mr. Twit thinks to himself that "At last the old" what "is lost and gone forever" (26)?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Dahl inject the scene within Chapter 11, entitled Mrs. Twit Goes Ballooning Up, with a sinister mood?

2. What method does Mrs. Twit use to engineer her descent?

3. For what reason does the author provide a second illustration beneath the diagram showing the degradation of Mrs. Twit's looks over time?

4. What third part of Mr. Twit's shrinking prank plan is revealed within Chapter 10, entitled Mrs. Twit Gets a Stretching?

5. What is the impetus for Mr. Twit's idea about releasing Mrs. Twit into the atmosphere?

6. How does Mrs. Twit use her glass eye to amuse herself?

7. In Chapter 12, entitled Mrs. Twit Goes Ballooning Down, the narrator uses the first sentence of the chapter to state two characteristics Mrs. Twit displays and one that she does not display. What are these three qualities?

8. What evidence does the narrator provide for the conclusion that Mr. and Mrs. Twit know one another very well?

9. How does the theme of secrecy emerge within Roald Dahl's discussion of bearded men within Chapter 1, entitled Hairy Faces?

10. How and why does Dahl utilize the second person point of view within Chapter 8, entitled The Funny Walking Stick?

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