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

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

3. What method do Boggis, Bunce, and Bean use after their use of mechanical shovels fails?
(a) Traps.
(b) Starvation.
(c) Reverse psychology.
(d) Explosives.

4. What object comes through the ceiling of the Fox family's home?
(a) A chainsaw.
(b) A truck.
(c) A shovel.
(d) A bolt of lightning.

5. What other action does Mrs. Fox take when she draws the Small Foxes close to her during the farmers' attack on the fox hole?
(a) She cries.
(b) She laughs.
(c) She closes her eyes.
(d) She sits down onto the floor.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes the three farmers as being rich and as possessing what other quality?

2. How many children of Mr. and Mrs. Fox are grouped within the moniker of "the Small Foxes" (6)?

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

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

5. What agreement do Boggis, Bunce, and Bean make at the end of a day using mechanical shovels?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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