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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom is Mabel sent to fetch cider from the storeroom?

2. Who kills the chickens that Mr. Fox catches?

3. What name does Mr. Fox at first call his smallest fox when carrots are mentioned?

4. Which character is said to possess "a long black pointed furry face" (45)?

5. Of what material are the stairs made that Mabel begins to descend at the end of Chapter 15?

Short Essay Questions

1. What instructions does Mr. Fox give to two of the Small Foxes when he sends them back home with two push-carts loaded with food?

2. What hard object do Mr. Fox and the Small Foxes bump into while they are digging and what does Mr. Fox say their discovery signifies?

3. Who takes charge of the situation in Bunce's Storehouse and what method is used to take charge?

4. What method does Mr. Fox use when he needs to think of an idea?

5. What method does Mr. Fox suggest to the Small Foxes when they become overexcited at the proximity of so many chickens?

6. Which member of the Fox family is suffering from hunger to the greatest degree during the vigil by the farmers?

7. For what reason has Mr. Fox planned to emerge within the room he does?

8. What four types of meat lie within Bunce's Storehouse?

9. On what errand does Mr. Fox send his biggest child after the foxes exit the Chicken House Number One?

10. Whose idea is it to take carrots from Bunce's Storehouse and for what reason?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the author's messages about guilt and responsibility within Roald Dahl's novel Fantastic Mr. Fox. Focus especially on events such as Mr. Fox’s acceptance of responsibility for bringing the farmers’ wrath down upon the other animals.

Essay Topic 2

Sensory details are used frequently by Roald Dahl in order to create vivid pictures of each character's progression through the narrative. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used by the author serve the author’s creation of vivid characters.

Essay Topic 3

William Faulkner once famously claimed that the most important literature deals with the subject of the human heart in conflict with itself. Explain how the theme of Human versus Self is demonstrated within Roald Dahl's novel Fantastic Mr. Fox. Create a decisive, arguable claim and prove it with quotes from the novel.

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