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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 product or products does Bunce produce at his farm?
(a) Apples and geese.
(b) Pigs.
(c) Ducks and geese.
(d) Milk.

2. What adjective does the narrator use to describe the race between the foxes and the mechanical shovels?
(a) Desperate.
(b) Chaotic.
(c) Close.
(d) Spine-tingling.

3. Which character in particular does Mr. Fox name as being easy to locate?
(a) Mr. Badger.
(b) Mrs. Fox.
(c) Bean.
(d) Bunce.

4. Who says aloud that Mr. Fox, Mrs. Fox, and all four Small Foxes would be dead if it were not for the quick thinking of Mr. Fox?
(a) Mr. Fox.
(b) The oldest Small Fox.
(c) All four Small Foxes.
(d) Mrs. Fox.

5. By what time of the afternoon or evening does the hole created by the mechanical shovels resemble "the crater of a volcano" (27)?
(a) 3 o'clock.
(b) 1 o'clock.
(c) 11 o'clock.
(d) 5 o'clock.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the farmers are waiting outside of Mr. Fox's hole, what object does each farmer hide behind?

2. Under what feature is the Fox family's hole located?

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

4. What source of light do Boggis, Bunce, and Bean use once night falls on their vigil outside of the Fox family's hole?

5. What time of day is it at the start of Chapter 5, entitled The Terrible Tractors?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is the theme of isolation depicted within Chapter 2?

4. How is the theme of appearance versus reality depicted within the scene when Bean's first plan to catch Mr. Fox is enacted?

5. Which parties are part of "The Race" (23) named in the title of Chapter 6?

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

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

8. What is Bean's third idea for catching and killing Mr. Fox?

9. How are characters from neighboring villages used within the text as the voice of reason?

10. What is Bean's second plan to nab Mr. Fox and what is its outcome?

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