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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) They had friends in the suburbs.
(c) Their kids were bussed there for school.
(d) They were waiting for families to leave so they could rob them.

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 worried her son would climb over their current wall.
(c) She wanted their wall higher than their neighbors.
(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) Snow White.
(c) The Little Mermaid.
(d) Cinderella.

5. Who is the first to find 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 the gardener.

6. What are some of the things intruders would take from suburban homes?
(a) Cassette players, radios and jewelry.
(b) Computers and cell phones.
(c) Pots and pans and coffee makers.
(d) Books and DVDs.

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

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

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

10. What is it said would happen if someone tried to get through the tunnel of the security fence the man and woman installed?
(a) The alarm would go off.
(b) They would get entangled in its fangs.
(c) They would get suffocated.
(d) They would get electrocuted.

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

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

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

14. 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) 12-inch pikes.
(d) Iron grilles with lance-points.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the man and woman see outside while they were discussing the latest armed robbery one night?

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

3. In addition to taken items from homes, what did the suburban intruders do in the homes?

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

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

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