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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 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) Setting booby traps.
(c) Getting guard dogs.
(d) Getting stickers with security company's names on them.

2. Who gave the man and woman money to build a higher wall around their house?
(a) The neighborhood association.
(b) They took out a loan.
(c) The woman's father.
(d) The man's mother.

3. Who runs out of the house second and finds the boy at the end of the story?
(a) The housemaid and gardener.
(b) The cat.
(c) The wise old witch.
(d) The man and the woman.

4. Why did the wife suggest they build a higher wall around their house?
(a) She wanted their wall higher than their neighbors.
(b) She worried her son would climb over their current wall.
(c) Her husband suggested that someone might still be able to climb in.
(d) She wanted it to block out the sun.

5. Which of his son's toys did the man take in from the yard every night in case someone came in?
(a) His walkie talkie.
(b) His toy soldiers.
(c) His pogo stick.
(d) His tricycle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the little boy drag to the wall while he is playing make believe at the end of the story?

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

3. What additional security option does the husband and wife choose after comparing various styles in the neighborhood?

4. What information was affixed to some of the security walls of people's houses in the suburbs?

5. Why did people in the city begin spending time in the suburbs even if they were not housemaids or gardeners?

Short Essay Questions

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

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. 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?

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

5. Describe the various security options the man and woman noticed during their neighborhood walk.

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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