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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 does the mother do to get the boy to sleep at the end of the story?
(a) Watch a movie with him.
(b) Give him sleeping medication.
(c) Sing him a lullaby.
(d) Read him a fairy tale.

2. What did the husband tell his wife she was doing by giving things to the city people who came to the suburbs?
(a) Wasting their money.
(b) Embarrassing him.
(c) Encouraging them.
(d) Helping them.

3. How is the housemaid described at the end of the story as she walks back to the house?
(a) Melancholy.
(b) Hopeless.
(c) Hysterical.
(d) Speechless.

4. Who does the boy pretend he is saving at the end of the story?
(a) Cinderella.
(b) Sleeping Beauty.
(c) Snow White.
(d) The Little Mermaid.

5. At the end of the story, what is the coil tunnel said to be "just wide enough for" (30)?
(a) The rain to seep through.
(b) An intruder to squeeze through.
(c) The boy to creep in.
(d) The cat to sleep in.

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

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

4. Why did the man and the woman not hire any of the people from the city who came seeking jobs?

5. How do the intruders get past the iron bars in the suburban homes?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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. What did the unemployed begin doing in the suburbs?

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

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

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

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

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