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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. In addition to taken items from homes, what did the suburban intruders do in the homes?
(a) Had parties.
(b) Ate and drank.
(c) Read.
(d) Napped.

2. Who runs out of the house second and finds the boy at the end of the story?
(a) The housemaid and gardener.
(b) The cat.
(c) The wise old witch.
(d) The man and the woman.

3. How do the intruders get past the iron bars in the suburban homes?
(a) They squeeze through them.
(b) They melt them.
(c) They saw through them.
(d) They bend them.

4. What is it said would happen if someone tried to get through the tunnel of the security fence the man and woman installed?
(a) They would get entangled in its fangs.
(b) The alarm would go off.
(c) They would get suffocated.
(d) They would get electrocuted.

5. What happens "after the first fixing of [the metal fencing's] razor teeth at the end of the story?
(a) The cat's body is entangled.
(b) The boy's body is entangled.
(c) The alarm goes off.
(d) The dog's body is entangled.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says they "hope the cat will take heed" (30) after the serrated metal coils are installed?

2. Why did owners of suburban homes particularly mourn when the intruders drank their single malt scotch?

3. What does the boy pretend the serrated metal coils are at the end of the story?

4. What is the name of the company that installs the security fence the man and woman have installed toward the end of the story?

5. What does the little boy drag to the wall while he is playing make believe at the end of the story?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the wife tell her husband she is worried after installing the serrated metal coils around their wall?

2. Describe the various security options the man and woman noticed during their neighborhood walk.

3. Despite thinking it the ugliest, what option did the man and woman choose to enhance security after building a higher wall?

4. After the man and woman decided they should build a higher wall, what did the man's mother get them for Christmas? What did she get for their son?

5. How did the son end up getting entangled in the new security fence at the end of the story?

6. What did the son pretend to be the day after his mother read him a fairy tale from the book the Wise Old Witch gave him?

7. What did the wife do for the people who hung around looking for work outside their home? What did the housemaid think of them?

8. Who helps remove the little boy at the end of the story? How do they do it?

9. What were intruders able to do even while the alarms wailed in the suburbs, and what did they take?

10. Why were homeowners particularly crushed when intruders drank their single malt scotch?

(see the answer keys)

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