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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 gifts did the man's mother give the little boy for Christmas the year they built a higher wall?
(a) A firetruck and a football.
(b) A Space Man outfit and a fairy tale book.
(c) Walkie talkies and a tricycle.
(d) A toy gun and a baseball bat.

2. After the incident with a neighbor's housemaid, what did the man and woman's housemaid beg them to do?
(a) Move to the country.
(b) Install burglar bars and an alarm system.
(c) Give her a raise.
(d) Get a gun.

3. How do the intruders get past the iron bars in the suburban homes?
(a) They squeeze through them.
(b) They bend them.
(c) They saw through them.
(d) They melt them.

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

5. What precautions does the narrator say she does not take in her home, despite having the same fears of those that do?
(a) She does not have guard dogs or security alarms.
(b) She does not have locks on her doors.
(c) She has no burglar bars or gun under her pillow.
(d) She does not have a phone nearby or a bat under her bed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the man and woman and little boy no longer able to admire when they took their dog for walks around the neighborhood?

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

3. In addition to taken items from homes, what did the suburban intruders do in the homes?

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

5. What does the narrator describe as "finely tuned" in the night?

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