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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 27 - 30 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What words are used to describe the way the sunlight interacts with the serrated metal fencing the man and woman install?
(a) Zipped and zapped.
(b) Flashed and slashed.
(c) Splished and splashed.
(d) Bounced and pounced.

2. According to the narrator's tale, under what conditions were people who lived in the city allowed in the suburbs?
(a) As nannies and drivers.
(b) As teachers and secretaries.
(c) As housemaids and gardeners.
(d) As doctors and lawyers.

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

4. Where were the riots said to be in the tale the narrator tells herself?
(a) In her mind.
(b) In another country.
(c) In the city.
(d) In a far away land.

5. What information was affixed to some of the security walls of people's houses in the suburbs?
(a) Who to call in case of emergency.
(b) The local homeless shelter.
(c) The company who installed them.
(d) The local police number.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had recommended the gardener to the man and his wife?

2. What does the man say cats always do, so they need not worry about him getting hurt on the new fencing?

3. What pets does the family in the narrator's story have at home?

4. At the end of the story, what is the coil tunnel said to be "just wide enough for" (30)?

5. What does the boy pretend the serrated metal coils are at the end of the story?

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