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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What additional security option does the husband and wife choose after comparing various styles in the neighborhood?
(a) Glass embedded in cement.
(b) Serrated metal coils.
(c) Iron grilles with lance-points.
(d) 12-inch pikes.

2. How is the housemaid described at the end of the story as she walks back to the house?
(a) Speechless.
(b) Hopeless.
(c) Hysterical.
(d) Melancholy.

3. Why did the wife suggest they build a higher wall around their house?
(a) She wanted it to block out the sun.
(b) She wanted their wall higher than their neighbors.
(c) She worried her son would climb over their current wall.
(d) Her husband suggested that someone might still be able to climb in.

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

5. Where did the cat sleep after the serrated metal coils were installed?
(a) The boy's bed.
(b) The man and woman's bed.
(c) The kitchen.
(d) The garden.

6. How are the coils the man and woman have installed around their wall described when the workmen are putting them in?
(a) Sharp as a knife.
(b) Serrated and stinging.
(c) Fierce and cutting.
(d) Razor-bladed.

7. What is described as the "low-cost option" neighbors used to secure their homes?
(a) Broken glass embedded in cement on the tops of walls.
(b) Setting booby traps.
(c) Getting guard dogs.
(d) Getting stickers with security company's names on them.

8. What does the mother do to get the boy to sleep at the end of the story?
(a) Give him sleeping medication.
(b) Read him a fairy tale.
(c) Watch a movie with him.
(d) Sing him a lullaby.

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

10. In addition to taken items from homes, what did the suburban intruders do in the homes?
(a) Ate and drank.
(b) Had parties.
(c) Napped.
(d) Read.

11. What were the man and woman and little boy no longer able to admire when they took their dog for walks around the neighborhood?
(a) Elaborate pools.
(b) Nice cars.
(c) Roses and nice lawns.
(d) Neighbors in fancy outfits.

12. What happens "after the first fixing of [the metal fencing's] razor teeth at the end of the story?
(a) The alarm goes off.
(b) The dog's body is entangled.
(c) The boy's body is entangled.
(d) The cat's body is entangled.

13. What information was affixed to some of the security walls of people's houses in the suburbs?
(a) The company who installed them.
(b) Who to call in case of emergency.
(c) The local police number.
(d) The local homeless shelter.

14. What words are used to describe the way the sunlight interacts with the serrated metal fencing the man and woman install?
(a) Flashed and slashed.
(b) Splished and splashed.
(c) Bounced and pounced.
(d) Zipped and zapped.

15. Which of his son's toys did the man take in from the yard every night in case someone came in?
(a) His tricycle.
(b) His walkie talkie.
(c) His pogo stick.
(d) His toy soldiers.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of the story, what is the coil tunnel said to be "just wide enough for" (30)?

2. What is said to have happened in one family's home while the family was at dinner?

3. What does the little boy drag to the wall while he is playing make believe at the end of the story?

4. What does the boy pretend the serrated metal coils are at the end of the story?

5. What sounds collided with the screams at the end of the story?

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