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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 words are used to describe the sounds the alarms in the suburban neighborhood made?
(a) Bangs and booms.
(b) Shrills, beats, and wails.
(c) Jingle jangles.
(d) Beeps, honks, and toots.

2. What woke the narrator in the night at the start of the story?
(a) The phone ringing.
(b) A rainstorm.
(c) Her husband.
(d) A creaking sound in her house.

3. What did the woman have the housemaid do to the people from the city who hung about looking for work?
(a) Bring them bread and tea.
(b) Bring them clothes.
(c) Give them money.
(d) Shoo them away.

4. Who lives in the home the narrator describes at the start of her story?
(a) A man, and a woman and their son.
(b) An old woman and her adult son.
(c) A single mother and her child.
(d) A father and his son.

5. What does the man say cats always do, so they need not worry about him getting hurt on the new fencing?
(a) Land on all fours.
(b) Have extra lives.
(c) Avoid danger.
(d) Look before they leap.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the little boy pretend to be at the end of the story?

2. What is the man's mother called in the narrator's tale?

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

4. How is the housemaid described at the end of the story as she walks back to the house?

5. Where did the cat sleep after the serrated metal coils were installed?

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