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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay 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 no resumes.
(b) They did not need any extra help.
(c) They could not afford to pay anyone else.
(d) They had been warned by his mother not to take anyone in off the street.

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

3. Who says they "hope the cat will take heed" (30) after the serrated metal coils are installed?
(a) The woman.
(b) The boy.
(c) The wise old witch.
(d) The man.

4. 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) Shoo them away.
(c) Bring them bread and tea.
(d) Bring them clothes.

5. Who does the little boy pretend to be at the end of the story?
(a) A cop.
(b) A Dragon.
(c) A Prince.
(d) A robber.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the mother do to get the boy to sleep at the end of the story?

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

4. Who does the boy pretend he is saving at the end of the story?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the wife do for the people who hung around looking for work outside their home? What did the housemaid think of them?

2. What did the unemployed begin doing in the suburbs?

3. What does the wife tell her husband she is worried after installing the serrated metal coils around their wall?

4. How did the son end up getting entangled in the new security fence at the end of the story?

5. Why did the neighborhood alarm systems tend to go unanswered?

6. What were intruders able to do even while the alarms wailed in the suburbs, and what did they take?

7. After the man and woman decided they should build a higher wall, what did the man's mother get them for Christmas? What did she get for their son?

8. Who helps remove the little boy at the end of the story? How do they do it?

9. Describe what would likely happen should someone attempt to climb the wall with the serrated metal coils installed?

10. Why were homeowners particularly crushed when intruders drank their single malt scotch?

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