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

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

3. When Mr. Fox emerges from his hole, unaware that the farmers are surrounding him, what kind of noise does he hear?
(a) A small rattling sound.
(b) A great banging sound.
(c) A soft rustling sound.
(d) A faint tapping sound.

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

5. What is NOT a weapon listed among those carried by the farmhands surrounding the Fox family's hole?
(a) Crossbows.
(b) Guns.
(c) Hatchets.
(d) Pistols.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When people from town gather to taunt Boggis, Bunce, and Bean, what is NOT named as an emotion within the farmers that is sharpened due to the criticism?

4. How many farmhands does Bean have on his farm?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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