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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the housemaid described at the end of the story as she walks back to the house?
(a) Hysterical.
(b) Melancholy.
(c) Hopeless.
(d) Speechless.

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

3. What is the narrator's house built atop?
(a) Undermined ground.
(b) Stilts.
(c) A garbage dump.
(d) Burial grounds.

4. What did the old widower who was murdered have to protect him?
(a) Fierce dogs.
(b) An electronic alarm system.
(c) Guns.
(d) Security guards.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the man and woman and little boy no longer able to admire when they took their dog for walks around the neighborhood?

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

3. Who is the first to find the boy at the end of the story?

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

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

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