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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 action do the children in town take when they see the three farmers?
(a) They run away.
(b) They call out for their parents.
(c) They sing.
(d) They laugh.

2. Who shouts threats into Mr. Fox's tunnel before the three farmers retire for the night after using the mechanical shovels all day?
(a) Bunce.
(b) Bean.
(c) Boggis.
(d) Barnes.

3. Once the farmers know the whereabouts of Mr. Fox's hole, but before Mr. Fox is aware of this fact, what items does Mrs. Fox request that Mr. Fox go out and get for supper?
(a) Chickens.
(b) Apples.
(c) Turkeys.
(d) Ducks.

4. What agreement do Boggis, Bunce, and Bean make at the end of a day using mechanical shovels?
(a) Not to let Mr. Badger get away.
(b) Not to let Mr. Fox get away.
(c) Not to miss the next Elks meeting.
(d) Not to let their wives run their lives.

5. The narrator states that the farmers are so involved in their task of digging with the mechanical shovels, that they do not stop for what meal?
(a) A midnight snack.
(b) Breakfast.
(c) Lunch.
(d) Dinner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What emotion does Mr. Fox express toward his wife at the end of Chapter 4?

2. After about what period of time digging does Mr. Fox tell everyone to stop digging?

3. When the three farmers make an agreement together, what action do they take as a means to seal their pact?

4. Boggis, Bunce, and Bean dig a hole with their shovels that is so big, what object could fit inside of it?

5. Which of the farmers claims to know where Mr. Fox's hole is?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the outcome of Bean's first plan to catch Mr. Fox?

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

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

5. What metaphor does Roald Dahl use to depict the "enormous caterpillar tractors" (21) owned by the farmers?

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

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

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

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

10. What technique does the text use in order to communicate to the reader the impact the mechanical shovels have on Mr. Fox's hole?

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