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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 "most profound" place does the narrator say men may be deep under her home?
(a) Brooks.
(b) Boats.
(c) Tombs.
(d) Homes.

2. What is the narrator's house built atop?
(a) Burial grounds.
(b) A garbage dump.
(c) Undermined ground.
(d) Stilts.

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

4. What is the man's mother called in the narrator's tale?
(a) The wise old witch.
(b) The good witch.
(c) The fairy godmother.
(d) The wicked witch.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does someone tell the narrator she should write for an upcoming anthology?

2. What does the wife worry the people from the city might come to their home and do some day?

3. What begins to happen once the riots in the city are suppressed?

4. What precautions does the narrator say she does not take in her home, despite having the same fears of those that do?

5. What did thieves do to "somebody's trusted housemaid" (26) after the city riots were suppressed?

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