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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) Ducks and geese.
(b) Milk.
(c) Pigs.
(d) Apples and geese.

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

3. By what name do the Small Foxes call their mother, Mrs. Fox?
(a) Mom.
(b) Mommy.
(c) Mummy.
(d) Mother.

4. The sight of an object coming through his ceiling is said to have what type of "effect" (16) on Mr. Fox?
(a) Dismayed.
(b) Strange.
(c) Muted.
(d) Electric.

5. 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) All four Small Foxes.
(b) Mrs. Fox.
(c) Mr. Fox.
(d) The oldest Small Fox.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator describes the foxes' legs as "moving so fast" (19) that the viewer sees what?

3. What item does Boggis place close to the Fox family's hole in hopes that they will emerge?

4. When Mr. Fox emerges from his hole, unaware that the farmers are surrounding him, what kind of noise does he hear?

5. What weapon does the person performing lookout duty at the Fox family's hole have on his person?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What items do Boggis, Bunce, and Bean ask for when they send messages back to their farms before enacting their fourth plan to kill Mr. Fox?

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

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

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

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

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