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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Mrs. Twit carries what object in her right hand?
2. How does Mr. Twit fill the balloons he has prepared for Mrs. Twit's cure?
3. When Mr. Twit declares that his spaghetti is moving, Mrs. Twit tells him that the spaghetti is a new what?
4. What pet name does Mr. Twit call Mrs. Twit just before he cuts the strings around her ankles?
5. What verb does Mr. Twit use to describe the only existing "cure for The Shrinks" (23)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What method does Mrs. Twit use to engineer her descent?
2. Who plays the trick depicted in Chapter 7 entitled The Wormy Spaghetti and what is the trick?
3. How is the theme of deception depicted within Mrs. Twit's statements about her walking stick?
4. How does the alphabetical part of the text within Chapter 3 embellish the details depicted within the diagram of Mr. Twit's mouth in the same chapter?
5. 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?
6. What evidence does the narrator provide for the conclusion that Mr. and Mrs. Twit know one another very well?
7. How does Dahl encourage curiosity in his young reader within Chapter 1, entitled Hairy Faces?
8. What third part of Mr. Twit's shrinking prank plan is revealed within Chapter 10, entitled Mrs. Twit Gets a Stretching?
9. How is Mr. Twit's complete lack of compassion for Mrs. Twit demonstrated within Chapter 9, entitled Mrs. Twit Has the Shrinks?
10. How does the trickster react to seeing the tricked person unknowingly eat worms?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Could Roald Dahl's novel The Twits be classified as a horror novel? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
Analyze the interplay between the resolution of Roald Dahl's novel The Twits and one of the novel's main messages. How does Dahl make connections between these elements and how does their juxtaposition help him get across one main message of the novel?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss three different types of comedic techniques Dahl uses within his novel The Twits.
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