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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are the people in the narrator's story said to be living at the start of her tale?
(a) Carefree and fancy free.
(b) In eternal despair.
(c) Happily ever after.
(d) Like peas in a pod.

2. Where did the cat sleep after the serrated metal coils were installed?
(a) The kitchen.
(b) The man and woman's bed.
(c) The garden.
(d) The boy's bed.

3. Who gave the man and woman money to build a higher wall around their house?
(a) The woman's father.
(b) The man's mother.
(c) They took out a loan.
(d) The neighborhood association.

4. What does the boy pretend the serrated metal coils are at the end of the story?
(a) A xylophone.
(b) A thicket of thorns.
(c) A ladder.
(d) A secret fortress.

5. What is the gardener doing as he walks back to the house at the end of the story?
(a) Yelling.
(b) Weeping.
(c) Crawling.
(d) Laughing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was the plaque meant to indicate that the property owner was not racist?

2. What did the old widower who was murdered have to protect him?

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

4. What pets does the family in the narrator's story have at home?

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

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