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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 woman have the housemaid do to the people from the city who hung about looking for work?
(a) Bring them bread and tea.
(b) Bring them clothes.
(c) Give them money.
(d) Shoo them away.

2. Why did owners of suburban homes particularly mourn when the intruders drank their single malt scotch?
(a) They usually saved it for a special occasion.
(b) They felt the intruders were unable to appreciate what they were drinking.
(c) It was too expensive to replace.
(d) They did not make that kind anymore.

3. What does the narrator realize is the reason for the creaking sound in her house?
(a) An intruder.
(b) Her child.
(c) Her housing shifting.
(d) Her cat.

4. What were the Chopi and Tsonga people the narrator says may have made the wooden instrument she describes when discussing her heart beating?
(a) Burglars.
(b) Musicians.
(c) Migrant miners.
(d) Farmers.

5. What begins to happen once the riots in the city are suppressed?
(a) People in the suburbs become less fearful.
(b) Burglaries in the suburbs increase.
(c) People in the city move to the suburbs.
(d) People in the suburbs move to the city.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the incident with a neighbor's housemaid, what did the man and woman's housemaid beg them to do?

2. Where does the story the narrator tells herself take place?

3. What did the husband tell his wife she was doing by giving things to the city people who came to the suburbs?

4. How is the housemaid described at the end of the story as she walks back to the house?

5. Why did people in the city begin spending time in the suburbs even if they were not housemaids or gardeners?

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