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

2. What is it said would happen if someone tried to get through the tunnel of the security fence the man and woman installed?
(a) The alarm would go off.
(b) They would get entangled in its fangs.
(c) They would get suffocated.
(d) They would get electrocuted.

3. What does the boy pretend the serrated metal coils are at the end of the story?
(a) A secret fortress.
(b) A thicket of thorns.
(c) A ladder.
(d) A xylophone.

4. What happens "after the first fixing of [the metal fencing's] razor teeth at the end of the story?
(a) The alarm goes off.
(b) The boy's body is entangled.
(c) The cat's body is entangled.
(d) The dog's body is entangled.

5. What did the woman have the housemaid do to the people from the city who hung about looking for work?
(a) Bring them bread and tea.
(b) Give them money.
(c) Shoo them away.
(d) Bring them clothes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What gifts did the man's mother give the little boy for Christmas the year they built a higher wall?

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

4. Who says they "hope the cat will take heed" (30) after the serrated metal coils are installed?

5. What did the man and woman see outside while they were discussing the latest armed robbery one night?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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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