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

2. Who does the boy pretend he is saving at the end of the story?
(a) Cinderella.
(b) Sleeping Beauty.
(c) Snow White.
(d) The Little Mermaid.

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

4. Who says they "hope the cat will take heed" (30) after the serrated metal coils are installed?
(a) The wise old witch.
(b) The man.
(c) The boy.
(d) The woman.

5. What additional security option does the husband and wife choose after comparing various styles in the neighborhood?
(a) 12-inch pikes.
(b) Iron grilles with lance-points.
(c) Serrated metal coils.
(d) Glass embedded in cement.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first to find the boy at the end of the story?

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

3. In addition to taken items from homes, what did the suburban intruders do in the homes?

4. What words are used to describe the sounds the alarms in the suburban neighborhood made?

5. Why did the wife suggest they build a higher wall around their house?

Short Essay Questions

1. After building a higher wall, what did the man and woman notice the cat doing one night while discussing the latest robberies?

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

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

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

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

6. Describe what would likely happen should someone attempt to climb the wall with the serrated metal coils installed?

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

8. 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?

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

10. What did the unemployed begin doing in the suburbs?

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