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

2. 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 thieves.
(d) They were desperate.

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

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

5. What did the man and woman see outside while they were discussing the latest armed robbery one night?
(a) Someone sneaking around their garden.
(b) The cat effortlessly climb over the wall.
(c) Their son sneaking off with a stranger.
(d) A neighbor's car get stolen.

Short Answer Questions

1. The sounds of the alarms in the suburban neighborhood were likened to which creatures?

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

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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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