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

2. 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.

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

4. To what kind of tractors do the farmers attach the mechanical shovels?
(a) Caterpillar.
(b) Farm.
(c) Animal Husbandry.
(d) John Deere.

5. When Mr. Fox looks at Mrs. Fox at the end of Chapter 4, what is her response?
(a) She laughs.
(b) She smiles.
(c) She looks away.
(d) She shrugs.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what name do the Small Foxes call their mother, Mrs. Fox?

2. What product or products does Boggis produce at his farm?

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

4. How many mechanical shovels do the farmers employ in their attack of Mr. Fox?

5. What type of weapons do the farmers carry in hopes of eradicating Mr. Fox?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What happens to the tree located above Mr. Fox's hole as a result of the farmers' use of mechanical shovels?

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

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

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

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

9. What three different scents do the three farmers produce, according to Mr. Fox?

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

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