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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. What does Tyler wear that is too small for him on Friday evening?

2. Why does Tyler have advanced placement (AP) classes?

3. How do Tyler and Hannah get to school?

4. What does Tyler have forty-eight hours to do?

5. What is distracting Tyler from doing his homework?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are Tyler's parents described?

2. What is the outcome of Tyler talking to his father about his academic schedule?

3. What is the result of Chip pushing Tyler?

4. What happens when Tyler delivers the cake to the Milbury's home?

5. What does Tyler do in retaliation for having to quit his job?

6. Where is Tyler's family going in Chapter three, and what does Tyler's father ask him to do?

7. What does Tyler's mother make for the Milbury's, and how is Tyler to help her?

8. How much homework does Tyler figure he has on his first night of the new school year, and what does he think he needs to do about his course schedule?

9. What is Tyler doing at the opening of Chapter 1?

10. What is the video-game scenario that Tyler is playing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The scene with the gun in Tyler's father's bedroom is enlightening. Tyler has long tried to fulfill his father's image. He is trying to live up to his father's expectations and everyone else's. He feels that he has failed. Then, he realizes that he is bigger than they are, not less, and that he can be more than what they think. It takes him putting the gun in his mouth and debating to realize that this is not what he wants.

1. Discuss the ways in which you see Tyler attempting to fulfill his father's image. Use examples from Twisted to support your answer.

2. Discuss why it might not be healthy for someone to try to live up to other people's expectations. Use examples from your own life and Twisted to support your answer.

3. Discuss the ways in which Tyler might be considered bigger than those who harass him or do not believe in him. Use examples from Twisted to support your answer.

4. Looking ahead five years in Tyler's life, when he is around 23, how do you think his life will be different from what it was up until he was eighteen, due to the awareness he had in the bedroom? Use examples from Twisted to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Tyler finally decides to take control of his own life. First, he needs to work out some aggression in a positive way, rather than berating himself or attacking others. He goes to a batting cage.

1. Discuss reasons why you think Tyler has so much anger and aggression in him. Use examples from your own life and Twisted to support your answer.

2. Discuss various other ways Tyler could work out his aggression, besides hitting baseballs. Use examples from your own life and Twisted to support your answer.

3. Discuss, in depth, why Tyler's confrontation with Chip is healing for Tyler. Use examples Twisted to support your answer.

4. Do you think that, by the end of Twisted, Tyler has solved all his problems? Why or why not? Refer to Twist's text to support your answers.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the following:

1. Often authors will write about what they know, and sometimes knowing a little about the author makes books more interesting. Research and give a brief biographical sketch of Laurie Halse Anderson.

2. What in Anderson's background may have helped her in writing Twisted? What may have influenced the way she depicted various characters and scenes? Use specific examples from the text.

3. Do you think there is always some of the author's own life in his or her novels? Why or why not?

4. What does the term "author agenda" mean? Give an example of author's agenda in Twisted. Trace and analyze the identified agenda as it appears throughout the book.

5. How often do you think an author writes fiction with a clear agenda in mind? Explain your answer. Give examples if possible. Do you think that writers who have a conscious agenda for writing should point it out in a preface? Why or why not?

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