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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the man and the woman not hire any of the people from the city who came seeking jobs?
(a) They had been warned by his mother not to take anyone in off the street.
(b) They could not afford to pay anyone else.
(c) They had no resumes.
(d) They did not need any extra help.

2. What did the man and woman see outside while they were discussing the latest armed robbery one night?
(a) Someone sneaking around their garden.
(b) The cat effortlessly climb over the wall.
(c) Their son sneaking off with a stranger.
(d) A neighbor's car get stolen.

3. What is said to have happened in one family's home while the family was at dinner?
(a) The car was stolen.
(b) The bedrooms were ransacked.
(c) The bar was raided.
(d) The television was smashed.

4. Why did people in the city begin spending time in the suburbs even if they were not housemaids or gardeners?
(a) They were looking for work.
(b) Their kids were bussed there for school.
(c) They were waiting for families to leave so they could rob them.
(d) They had friends in the suburbs.

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

6. Who is the first to find the boy at the end of the story?
(a) The wise old witch.
(b) The man and the woman.
(c) The cat.
(d) The housemaid and the gardener.

7. What did the housemaid say to the woman who hung about the suburbs looking for work?
(a) They were desperate.
(b) They were thieves.
(c) They were good people.
(d) They were loafers.

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

9. Who gave the man and woman money to build a higher wall around their house?
(a) The man's mother.
(b) The neighborhood association.
(c) They took out a loan.
(d) The woman's father.

10. What is the gardener doing as he walks back to the house at the end of the story?
(a) Weeping.
(b) Yelling.
(c) Crawling.
(d) Laughing.

11. How do the intruders get past the iron bars in the suburban homes?
(a) They melt them.
(b) They squeeze through them.
(c) They bend them.
(d) They saw through them.

12. 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.

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

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

15. 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) Roses and nice lawns.
(b) Nice cars.
(c) Neighbors in fancy outfits.
(d) Elaborate pools.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are some of the things intruders would take from suburban homes?

2. Where did the cat sleep after the serrated metal coils were installed?

3. What gifts did the man's mother give the little boy for Christmas the year they built a higher wall?

4. What information was affixed to some of the security walls of people's houses in the suburbs?

5. Who does the little boy pretend to be at the end of the story?

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