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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 does the boy pretend the serrated metal coils are at the end of the story?
(a) A thicket of thorns.
(b) A xylophone.
(c) A secret fortress.
(d) A ladder.
2. What happens "after the first fixing of [the metal fencing's] razor teeth at the end of the story?
(a) The boy's body is entangled.
(b) The cat's body is entangled.
(c) The dog's body is entangled.
(d) The alarm goes off.
3. The sounds of the alarms in the suburban neighborhood were likened to which creatures?
(a) Frogs and cicadas.
(b) Blackbirds and crickets.
(c) Mosquitoes and bluejays.
(d) Bees and grasshoppers.
4. What gifts did the man's mother give the little boy for Christmas the year they built a higher wall?
(a) A firetruck and a football.
(b) Walkie talkies and a tricycle.
(c) A toy gun and a baseball bat.
(d) A Space Man outfit and a fairy tale book.
5. In addition to taken items from homes, what did the suburban intruders do in the homes?
(a) Had parties.
(b) Read.
(c) Ate and drank.
(d) Napped.
Short Answer Questions
1. What information was affixed to some of the security walls of people's houses in the suburbs?
2. Why did the man and the woman not hire any of the people from the city who came seeking jobs?
3. What is the gardener doing as he walks back to the house at the end of the story?
4. Who runs out of the house second and finds the boy at the end of the story?
5. Which of his son's toys did the man take in from the yard every night in case someone came in?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why were homeowners particularly crushed when intruders drank their single malt scotch?
2. 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?
3. Describe what would likely happen should someone attempt to climb the wall with the serrated metal coils installed?
4. What did the unemployed begin doing in the suburbs?
5. After building a higher wall, what did the man and woman notice the cat doing one night while discussing the latest robberies?
6. How did the son end up getting entangled in the new security fence at the end of the story?
7. Despite thinking it the ugliest, what option did the man and woman choose to enhance security after building a higher wall?
8. What were intruders able to do even while the alarms wailed in the suburbs, and what did they take?
9. Who helps remove the little boy at the end of the story? How do they do it?
10. What does the wife tell her husband she is worried after installing the serrated metal coils around their wall?
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