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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. When the farmers are waiting outside of Mr. Fox's hole, what object does each farmer hide behind?
(a) A tree.
(b) A car.
(c) A building.
(d) A bush.

2. How many farmhands do Bunce, Bean, and Boggis have in total?
(a) 112.
(b) 108.
(c) 98.
(d) 127.

3. Who tells Mr. Fox that his missing body part will grow back?
(a) Mr. Rat.
(b) One of the Small Foxes.
(c) Bunce.
(d) Mrs. Fox.

4. What product or products does Boggis produce at his farm?
(a) Chickens.
(b) Milk.
(c) Turkeys and geese.
(d) Apples and turkeys.

5. What phenomenon does Mrs. Fox momentarily think is happening when the farmers are conducting their assault with mechanical shovels?
(a) A tornado.
(b) A tsunami.
(c) A hurricane.
(d) An earthquake.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states that when Bean smiles, a viewer sees more of what than they see teeth?

2. To what kind of tractors do the farmers attach the mechanical shovels?

3. Bunce shouts that he will use what object to pick up Mr. Fox when the farmers find him?

4. What other action does Mrs. Fox take when she draws the Small Foxes close to her during the farmers' attack on the fox hole?

5. Boggis yells to Mr. Fox as the farmers chase him that Mr. Fox has "had his last" (26) what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is the theme of collectivism demonstrated in Chapter 7 in the scene of the three farmers' pact?

3. What product(s) does each of the three farmers Boggis, Bunce, and Bean produce on each of their farms?

4. What form of poetry or song is featured in Chapter 1 of the text and what are its contents?

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

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

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

8. What nasty habit does Bean display "delicately" (9) in Chapter 2?

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

10. How is the theme of humanism demonstrated within Chapter 8, entitled The Foxes Begin to Starve?

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