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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) Security guards.
(b) Guns.
(c) An electronic alarm system.
(d) Fierce dogs.

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

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

4. What does the narrator do when she is unable to go back to sleep?
(a) She reads a book.
(b) She tells herself a story.
(c) She eats a sandwich.
(d) She writes a letter.

5. Who had recommended the gardener to the man and his wife?
(a) Neighbors.
(b) The man's mother.
(c) The woman's sister.
(d) The child's teacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "Once Upon a Time"?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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