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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. What is described as the "low-cost option" neighbors used to secure their homes?
(a) Setting booby traps.
(b) Broken glass embedded in cement on the tops of walls.
(c) Getting guard dogs.
(d) Getting stickers with security company's names on them.

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

3. 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.

4. 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 had been warned by his mother not to take anyone in off the street.
(d) They could not afford to pay anyone else.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did owners of suburban homes particularly mourn when the intruders drank their single malt scotch?

3. Who runs out of the house second and finds the boy at the end of the story?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did the son pretend to be the day after his mother read him a fairy tale from the book the Wise Old Witch gave him?

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

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

5. After building a higher wall, what did the man and woman notice the cat doing one night while discussing the latest robberies?

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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