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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 did the old widower who was murdered have to protect him?
(a) An electronic alarm system.
(b) Security guards.
(c) Fierce dogs.
(d) Guns.

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

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

4. What is it said the house and swimming pool and car could not be insured against?
(a) Theft.
(b) Flooding.
(c) Riot damage.
(d) Fire.

5. What does someone tell the narrator she should write for an upcoming anthology?
(a) A screenplay.
(b) A children's story.
(c) A poem.
(d) A thriller.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the narrator's house built atop?

3. After the incident with a neighbor's housemaid, what did the man and woman's housemaid beg them to do?

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

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

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