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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. At the opening to Chapter Sixty-four, how does Tyler feel when he wakes?

2. Why does Bethany come to school on Friday?

3. What do Hannah and Tyler's mother do while Tyler is sleeping?

4. Where does Tyler go after the party?

5. What lie does Tyler tell Hannah?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hannah find out that Tyler is planning to leave home?

2. What does Tyler find when he arrives at school on the Monday after the party?

3. What happens when Tyler's father comes home the night of the homecoming game?

4. Where does Tyler first go to kill himself, and who helps him not to do it?

5. What has happened to the football field, and what does it worry Tyler?

6. What do the individual members of Tyler's family do on homecoming night?

7. How does Tyler confront Chip, and what happens when he encounters Bethany?

8. Describe Tyler's confrontation with his father in the basement

9. What does Tyler tell his guidance counselor, and what is the counselor's response?

10. What does Bethany invite Tyler to do a couple of weeks later?

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

Many readers of fiction place themselves in the position of one character, wondering if they would do the same thing as that character. Discuss the following:

1. Do you think one of the values of literature is to serve as a reflection of oneself? Why or why not?

2. Socrates said "Know thyself." How can reading a book such as Twisted help a reader know himself or herself? Do you find yourself reflecting on your own character and abilities when reading Twisted? Why or why not. Use examples from Twisted and your own life to support your answer.

3. Choose one specific incident in Twisted to discuss and compare one of the characters' response to how you think you would have responded

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Essay Topic 3

Often a book has a plot that more character driven than action driven, and often it is the other way around. Some books seem to balance the two types of plots. Discuss the following:

1. What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven? Action driven?

2. How do you think a plot differs if it is character driven versus action driven?

3. Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why?

4. Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character development share equal time? Why or why not.

5. What type of plot do you think Twisted is? Explain your response.

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