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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) Pots and pans and coffee makers.
(b) Cassette players, radios and jewelry.
(c) Computers and cell phones.
(d) Books and DVDs.

2. 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) Tag.
(c) Cops and robbers.
(d) Telephone.

3. What did thieves do to "somebody's trusted housemaid" (26) after the city riots were suppressed?
(a) Made her tell them where all the family jewelry was.
(b) Tied her up and shut her in a cupboard.
(c) Kidnapped her.
(d) Stabbed her.

4. What were the Chopi and Tsonga people the narrator says may have made the wooden instrument she describes when discussing her heart beating?
(a) Burglars.
(b) Musicians.
(c) Farmers.
(d) Migrant miners.

5. Where did the man and woman get the plaque that said "YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED" (25) when they first began their life together?
(a) The woman's father.
(b) The man's mother.
(c) A local gift-shop.
(d) The Neighborhood Watch.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator describe as "finely tuned" in the night?

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

3. What "most profound" place does the narrator say men may be deep under her home?

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

5. What does the narrator stare at in her bed as she listens to the sounds in her house?

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