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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 emotion does Mr. Fox express toward his wife at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) Loyalty.
(b) Trust.
(c) Love.
(d) Anger.

2. What other action does Mrs. Fox take when she draws the Small Foxes close to her during the farmers' attack on the fox hole?
(a) She cries.
(b) She closes her eyes.
(c) She laughs.
(d) She sits down onto the floor.

3. The narrator states that the farmers are so involved in their task of digging with the mechanical shovels, that they do not stop for what meal?
(a) A midnight snack.
(b) Lunch.
(c) Breakfast.
(d) Dinner.

4. When Chapter 5 begins, Bunce, Boggis, and Bean are described using what two adjectives?
(a) Frustrated and mad.
(b) Envious and conniving.
(c) Tired and cross.
(d) Sad and depressed.

5. What is NOT a weapon listed among those carried by the farmhands surrounding the Fox family's hole?
(a) Hatchets.
(b) Guns.
(c) Pistols.
(d) Crossbows.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who shouts threats into Mr. Fox's tunnel before the three farmers retire for the night after using the mechanical shovels all day?

2. Which farmer picks his nose openly during his conversation about Mr. Fox with the other two farmers?

3. What object comes through the ceiling of the Fox family's home?

4. Mr. Fox declares that "Nobody in the world can dig as quick as" (18) what type of animal?

5. When Mr. Fox emerges from his hole, unaware that the farmers are surrounding him, what kind of noise does he hear?

Short Essay Questions

1. What technique does the text use in order to communicate to the reader the impact the mechanical shovels have on Mr. Fox's hole?

2. Where do Mr. and Mrs. Fox live with their four Small Foxes?

3. What is Bean's first plan for catching Mr. Fox?

4. What is Bean's fourth idea for how to eradicate Mr. Fox?

5. What happens to the tree located above Mr. Fox's hole as a result of the farmers' use of mechanical shovels?

6. What method does Mr. Fox use to evade capture at the hands of a particular farmer?

7. Which three characters in the text are introduced on its very first page?

8. What is the cause of Bean's deafness?

9. What metaphor does Roald Dahl use to depict the "enormous caterpillar tractors" (21) owned by the farmers?

10. What routine have the foxes adopted each night when it gets dark?

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