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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 27 - 30 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are some of the things intruders would take from suburban homes?
(a) Computers and cell phones.
(b) Pots and pans and coffee makers.
(c) Books and DVDs.
(d) Cassette players, radios and jewelry.

2. Why did people in the city begin spending time in the suburbs even if they were not housemaids or gardeners?
(a) They were waiting for families to leave so they could rob them.
(b) Their kids were bussed there for school.
(c) They had friends in the suburbs.
(d) They were looking for work.

3. What did the housemaid say to the woman who hung about the suburbs looking for work?
(a) They were good people.
(b) They were desperate.
(c) They were thieves.
(d) They were loafers.

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

5. What did the husband tell his wife she was doing by giving things to the city people who came to the suburbs?
(a) Wasting their money.
(b) Helping them.
(c) Encouraging them.
(d) Embarrassing him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the man tell his wife to ease her fears the people from the city will come to their house in the suburbs?

2. What information was affixed to some of the security walls of people's houses in the suburbs?

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

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

5. At the end of the story, what is the coil tunnel said to be "just wide enough for" (30)?

(see the answer key)

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