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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. 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) Lunch.
(b) Dinner.
(c) A midnight snack.
(d) Breakfast.

2. The narrator describes the foxes' legs as "moving so fast" (19) that the viewer sees what?
(a) A blur.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Fifty fox legs.
(d) Only dirt.

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?
(a) Obstinate energy.
(b) Fury.
(c) Shame.
(d) Determination.

4. Which farmer's favorite food is doughnuts and goose liver paste?
(a) Boggis.
(b) Barnes.
(c) Bunce.
(d) Bean.

5. Bunce shouts that he will use what object to pick up Mr. Fox when the farmers find him?
(a) His arm.
(b) His garbage can.
(c) His bucket.
(d) His shovel.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states that Bean has what type of smile?

2. What is NOT a weapon listed among those carried by the farmhands surrounding the Fox family's hole?

3. Who guards the Foxes' hole while the mechanical shovels are fetched?

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

5. How many farmhands does Bunce have on his farm?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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