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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of the company that installs the security fence the man and woman have installed toward the end of the story?
(a) Dragon's Teeth.
(b) Wolf Fangs.
(c) Bear Claws.
(d) Snake Bite.

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

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

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

6. What did the woman have the housemaid do to the people from the city who hung about looking for work?
(a) Give them money.
(b) Bring them clothes.
(c) Shoo them away.
(d) Bring them bread and tea.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. 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 toy soldiers.
(c) His walkie talkie.
(d) His pogo stick.

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

15. At the end of the story, what is the coil tunnel said to be "just wide enough for" (30)?
(a) An intruder to squeeze through.
(b) The cat to sleep in.
(c) The boy to creep in.
(d) The rain to seep through.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gave the man and woman money to build a higher wall around their house?

2. What does the man say cats always do, so they need not worry about him getting hurt on the new fencing?

3. Who says they "hope the cat will take heed" (30) after the serrated metal coils are installed?

4. What is it said would happen if someone tried to get through the tunnel of the security fence the man and woman installed?

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

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