Name: ___________________

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 Chapters 1-3

1. Who are the 3 farmers in the story?

Name: _________________________
Type of Farm: _______________________________________________________
Eats: ________________________________________________________________
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Name: _________________________
Type of Farm: _______________________________________________________
Eats: ________________________________________________________________
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Name: _________________________
Type of Farm: _______________________________________________________
Eats: ________________________________________________________________
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2. Where does Mr. Fox live and with who?

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3. How did Mr. Fox avoid getting caught by the farmers?

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4. What was the three farmers plan to get rid of Mr. Fox?
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5. The events below are out of order. Place these events in order by
numbering them from 1-5.
______ “Get the shovels!”
______ Mrs. Fox decided to have duck for dinner.
______ The three farmers shot their guns all at the same time.
______ Mr. Fox cautiously crept out of the fox hole.
______ All that was left at the entrance was a fox’s tail.

6. Draw what you think the 3 farmers look like based on their descriptions.

Boggis Bunce Bean

“enormously fat” “short and fat” “thin as a pencil”

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 Chapters 4-5

1. How were the farmers going to get the foxes?

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2. What were the mechanical shovels that the farmers referred to?
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3. In a sentence or two, describe how Mrs. Fox felt about Mr. Fox after he
had got them all safely to the end of the new long tunnel.
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4. The events below are out of order. Place these events in order by
numbering them from 1-5.
______ The fox family saw light at the end of the tunnel.
______ Bean and Bunce road up with their huge mechanical shovels.
______ Boggis stayed behind to protect the hole.
______ The three farmers became very tired and impatient digging the
hole.
______ The machines went to work, digging huge holes in the ground.

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 Chapters 6-8

Complete the word search of the book’s vocabulary below.

prowling blighter quivering twitched electric clanging

glum murky enormous mechanical surround wafted
swig lurking sloped nasty reeks lean crafty

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 Chapters 9-11

Help the foxes find their way to the three farms.

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 Chapters 12-13

1. From chapter 12, list the “diggers” who are trapped down under the
ground.
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2. Why did the foxes and badger have to be neat and tidy when stealing
the food?
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3. Why did they take the carrots when they do not eat vegetables?
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 Chapters 14-15

1. In Chapter 14, why couldn’t Mr. Fox and Badger get right into
Bean’s place?
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2. What did the animals want to get from the cellar?

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3. Draw a picture below that shows your prediction of what the animals
will do to hide from the woman coming into the cellar.