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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 does someone tell the narrator she should write for an upcoming anthology?
(a) A thriller.
(b) A screenplay.
(c) A children's story.
(d) A poem.

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

3. The sounds of the alarms in the suburban neighborhood were likened to which creatures?
(a) Blackbirds and crickets.
(b) Frogs and cicadas.
(c) Mosquitoes and bluejays.
(d) Bees and grasshoppers.

4. What did the old widower who was murdered have to protect him?
(a) Fierce dogs.
(b) Guns.
(c) An electronic alarm system.
(d) Security guards.

5. What did "a certain novelist" say every writer "ought to write at least once" (23)?
(a) A children's story.
(b) A thriller.
(c) A screenplay.
(d) A haiku.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator do when she is unable to go back to sleep?

2. What sounds collided with the screams at the end of the story?

3. What precautions does the narrator say she does not take in her home, despite having the same fears of those that do?

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

5. What is described as the "low-cost option" neighbors used to secure their homes?

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