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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 is it said would happen if someone tried to get through the tunnel of the security fence the man and woman installed?
(a) The alarm would go off.
(b) They would get electrocuted.
(c) They would get entangled in its fangs.
(d) They would get suffocated.

2. How is the housemaid described at the end of the story as she walks back to the house?
(a) Speechless.
(b) Melancholy.
(c) Hopeless.
(d) Hysterical.

3. What is said to have happened in one family's home while the family was at dinner?
(a) The car was stolen.
(b) The bar was raided.
(c) The television was smashed.
(d) The bedrooms were ransacked.

4. What is the narrator's house built atop?
(a) Stilts.
(b) Undermined ground.
(c) Burial grounds.
(d) A garbage dump.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the people in the narrator's story said to be living at the start of her tale?

2. What are the man and woman warned against doing as they start their lives together?

3. How do the intruders get past the iron bars in the suburban homes?

4. What does the wife worry the people from the city might come to their home and do some day?

5. Who is the first to find the boy at the end of the story?

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