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

2. How are the coils the man and woman have installed around their wall described when the workmen are putting them in?
(a) Fierce and cutting.
(b) Sharp as a knife.
(c) Razor-bladed.
(d) Serrated and stinging.

3. What did the housemaid say to the woman who hung about the suburbs looking for work?
(a) They were loafers.
(b) They were good people.
(c) They were desperate.
(d) They were thieves.

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) Encouraging them.
(c) Wasting their money.
(d) Helping them.

5. What does the little boy drag to the wall while he is playing make believe at the end of the story?
(a) Garden stones.
(b) His tricycle.
(c) The cat.
(d) A ladder.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the woman have the housemaid do to the people from the city who hung about looking for work?

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?

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

4. How is the housemaid described at the end of the story as she walks back to the house?

5. Why did people in the city begin spending time in the suburbs even if they were not housemaids or gardeners?

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

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