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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the husband tell his wife she was doing by giving things to the city people who came to the suburbs?
(a) Helping them.
(b) Wasting their money.
(c) Encouraging them.
(d) Embarrassing him.

2. What does the little boy drag to the wall while he is playing make believe at the end of the story?
(a) His tricycle.
(b) A ladder.
(c) Garden stones.
(d) The cat.

3. 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 did not need any extra help.
(c) They had no resumes.
(d) They could not afford to pay anyone else.

4. What does the man say cats always do, so they need not worry about him getting hurt on the new fencing?
(a) Look before they leap.
(b) Land on all fours.
(c) Have extra lives.
(d) Avoid danger.

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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) Elaborate pools.
(c) Neighbors in fancy outfits.
(d) Nice cars.

11. Why did owners of suburban homes particularly mourn when the intruders drank their single malt scotch?
(a) They usually saved it for a special occasion.
(b) They felt the intruders were unable to appreciate what they were drinking.
(c) They did not make that kind anymore.
(d) It was too expensive to replace.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What words are used to describe the sounds the alarms in the suburban neighborhood made?

2. Why did people in the city begin spending time in the suburbs even if they were not housemaids or gardeners?

3. What is the gardener doing as he walks back to the house at the end of the story?

4. How are the coils the man and woman have installed around their wall described when the workmen are putting them in?

5. What is described as the "low-cost option" neighbors used to secure their homes?

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