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

2. What reason does the narrator give for the casual laborer murdering an old widower?
(a) The old man was a callous employer.
(b) The widower would not give the laborer a raise.
(c) The laborer was dismissed without pay.
(d) The laborer wanted the old man's antique clocks.

3. What does the husband do to assuage his wife's fears that people from the city might intrude on their home in the suburbs?
(a) He buys her a gun.
(b) He adds padlocks to their doors.
(c) He buys them a house in the country.
(d) He has electronically-controlled gates installed.

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

5. What does the narrator stare at in her bed as she listens to the sounds in her house?
(a) Her gun.
(b) The door.
(c) The floor.
(d) Her reflection in the mirror.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the Chopi and Tsonga people the narrator says may have made the wooden instrument she describes when discussing her heart beating?

2. Where were the riots said to be in the tale the narrator tells herself?

3. What adjective is used to describe the housemaid in the narrator's tale?

4. How are the people in the narrator's story said to be living at the start of her tale?

5. What does the narrator do when she is unable to go back to sleep?

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