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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 words are used to describe the sounds the alarms in the suburban neighborhood made?
(a) Beeps, honks, and toots.
(b) Shrills, beats, and wails.
(c) Jingle jangles.
(d) Bangs and booms.

2. What are some of the things intruders would take from suburban homes?
(a) Cassette players, radios and jewelry.
(b) Computers and cell phones.
(c) Pots and pans and coffee makers.
(d) Books and DVDs.

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

4. Where did the man and woman get the plaque that said "YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED" (25) when they first began their life together?
(a) A local gift-shop.
(b) The woman's father.
(c) The Neighborhood Watch.
(d) The man's mother.

5. What pets does the family in the narrator's story have at home?
(a) Goldfish and a parakeet.
(b) A cat and a dog.
(c) A monkey and a lemur.
(d) A bird and a hamster.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the Chopi and Tsonga people the narrator says may have made the wooden instrument she describes when discussing her heart beating?

2. What did "a certain novelist" say every writer "ought to write at least once" (23)?

3. Who says they "hope the cat will take heed" (30) after the serrated metal coils are installed?

4. Who runs out of the house second and finds 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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