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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 additional security option does the husband and wife choose after comparing various styles in the neighborhood?
(a) Serrated metal coils.
(b) 12-inch pikes.
(c) Iron grilles with lance-points.
(d) Glass embedded in cement.

2. Who does the little boy pretend to be at the end of the story?
(a) A cop.
(b) A robber.
(c) A Dragon.
(d) A Prince.

3. 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) The boy to creep in.
(c) An intruder to squeeze through.
(d) The cat to sleep in.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Where did the cat sleep after the serrated metal coils were installed?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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. 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?

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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