I think a lot of the hand-wringing about the pineapple/hare story is overblown. There are only two questions of the six they had problems with... and honestly, I'd say one of them isn't a problem at all, it just takes less literal thinking that most 8th graders typically demonstrate. When the owl says, "pineapples don't have sleeves" it could be speaking figuratively, implying it can't possibly have a trick, and in this case, it didn't, so no problem.
The question about why the animals ate the pineapple is very stupid.
