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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) Getting stickers with security company's names on them.
(b) Broken glass embedded in cement on the tops of walls.
(c) Getting guard dogs.
(d) Setting booby traps.

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

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

4. Why did the man and the woman not hire any of the people from the city who came seeking jobs?
(a) They did not need any extra help.
(b) They had been warned by his mother not to take anyone in off the street.
(c) They could not afford to pay anyone else.
(d) They had no resumes.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of his son's toys did the man take in from the yard every night in case someone came in?

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

4. What happens "after the first fixing of [the metal fencing's] razor teeth at the end of the story?

5. What are some of the things intruders would take from suburban homes?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Rather than noting lovely roses and gardens, what did the man and woman begin to admire during their neighborhood walks with their son and dog?

6. Describe the various security options the man and woman noticed during their neighborhood walk.

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. Despite thinking it the ugliest, what option did the man and woman choose to enhance security after building a higher wall?

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

10. 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?

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