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

2. What is said to have happened in one family's home while the family was at dinner?
(a) The car was stolen.
(b) The bedrooms were ransacked.
(c) The bar was raided.
(d) The television was smashed.

3. 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) Dragon's Teeth.
(b) Snake Bite.
(c) Bear Claws.
(d) Wolf Fangs.

4. In addition to taken items from homes, what did the suburban intruders do in the homes?
(a) Ate and drank.
(b) Read.
(c) Napped.
(d) Had parties.

5. 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) Serrated and stinging.
(c) Razor-bladed.
(d) Sharp as a knife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first to find the boy at the end of the story?

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

3. Who gave the man and woman money to build a higher wall around their house?

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

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

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

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

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. 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?

7. 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?

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

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

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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