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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 23 - 26 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator describe as "finely tuned" in the night?
(a) Machinery.
(b) The universe.
(c) One's senses.
(d) Her piano.

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

3. Who lives in the home the narrator describes at the start of her story?
(a) A father and his son.
(b) An old woman and her adult son.
(c) A single mother and her child.
(d) A man, and a woman and their son.

4. What game did the little boy like to play after they installed a speaker at the gates of their home?
(a) Telephone.
(b) Cops and robbers.
(c) Tag.
(d) Hide and seek.

5. Where does the story the narrator tells herself take place?
(a) A house in the country.
(b) An apartment in the city.
(c) A condo by the ocean.
(d) A house in the suburbs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was the swimming pool in the tale fenced in?

2. What type of people are said to live in the city in the tale the narrator tells herself?

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

4. According to the narrator's tale, under what conditions were people who lived in the city allowed in the suburbs?

5. What are the man and woman warned against doing as they start their lives together?

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