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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 did the husband tell his wife she was doing by giving things to the city people who came to the suburbs?
(a) Embarrassing him.
(b) Helping them.
(c) Wasting their money.
(d) Encouraging them.

2. Why was the swimming pool in the tale fenced in?
(a) So intruders would not swim in it.
(b) So the boy and is friends would not drown.
(c) So the cat and dog would not get in.
(d) So the neighbors would not see it.

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

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 a far away land.
(d) In the city.

5. What did thieves do to "somebody's trusted housemaid" (26) after the city riots were suppressed?
(a) Kidnapped her.
(b) Stabbed her.
(c) Tied her up and shut her in a cupboard.
(d) Made her tell them where all the family jewelry was.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is said to have offered a warning to the man and woman when they started their life together?

2. What woke the narrator in the night at the start of the story?

3. What does the husband do to assuage his wife's fears that people from the city might intrude on their home in the suburbs?

4. Who gave the man and woman money to build a higher wall around their house?

5. Why did the man and the woman not hire any of the people from the city who came seeking jobs?

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