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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 27 - 30 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the little boy pretend to be at the end of the story?
(a) A Prince.
(b) A cop.
(c) A Dragon.
(d) A robber.

2. What adjective is used to describe the gardener in the narrator's tale?
(a) Itinerant.
(b) Patient.
(c) Elegant.
(d) Attentive.

3. 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) Encouraging them.
(d) Wasting their money.

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

5. According to the narrator's tale, who were being shot by the police in the city?
(a) Other police officers.
(b) Schoolchildren.
(c) Rioters.
(d) Burglars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens "after the first fixing of [the metal fencing's] razor teeth at the end of the story?

2. What is the man's mother called in the narrator's tale?

3. Who runs out of the house second and finds the boy at the end of the story?

4. Which of his son's toys did the man take in from the yard every night in case someone came in?

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

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