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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 27 - 30 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What game did the little boy like to play after they installed a speaker at the gates of their home?
(a) Tag.
(b) Hide and seek.
(c) Telephone.
(d) Cops and robbers.

2. Who does the boy pretend he is saving at the end of the story?
(a) The Little Mermaid.
(b) Sleeping Beauty.
(c) Cinderella.
(d) Snow White.

3. What gifts did the man's mother give the little boy for Christmas the year they built a higher wall?
(a) A Space Man outfit and a fairy tale book.
(b) A firetruck and a football.
(c) A toy gun and a baseball bat.
(d) Walkie talkies and a tricycle.

4. Who runs out of the house second and finds the boy at the end of the story?
(a) The wise old witch.
(b) The cat.
(c) The housemaid and gardener.
(d) The man and the woman.

5. The sounds of the alarms in the suburban neighborhood were likened to which creatures?
(a) Frogs and cicadas.
(b) Bees and grasshoppers.
(c) Mosquitoes and bluejays.
(d) Blackbirds and crickets.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the man and woman and little boy no longer able to admire when they took their dog for walks around the neighborhood?

2. How is the housemaid described at the end of the story as she walks back to the house?

3. Who is the first to find the boy at the end of the story?

4. What is it said the house and swimming pool and car could not be insured against?

5. Why was the swimming pool in the tale fenced in?

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