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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 additional security option does the husband and wife choose after comparing various styles in the neighborhood?
(a) Glass embedded in cement.
(b) Iron grilles with lance-points.
(c) 12-inch pikes.
(d) Serrated metal coils.

2. What begins to happen once the riots in the city are suppressed?
(a) Burglaries in the suburbs increase.
(b) People in the suburbs move to the city.
(c) People in the suburbs become less fearful.
(d) People in the city move to the suburbs.

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

4. What "most profound" place does the narrator say men may be deep under her home?
(a) Tombs.
(b) Boats.
(c) Homes.
(d) Brooks.

5. How are the people in the narrator's story said to be living at the start of her tale?
(a) Carefree and fancy free.
(b) Like peas in a pod.
(c) In eternal despair.
(d) Happily ever after.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the wife worry the people from the city might come to their home and do some day?

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

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