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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 is said to have happened in one family's home while the family was at dinner?
(a) The bedrooms were ransacked.
(b) The car was stolen.
(c) The bar was raided.
(d) The television was smashed.

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

3. Who gave the man and woman money to build a higher wall around their house?
(a) The man's mother.
(b) They took out a loan.
(c) The neighborhood association.
(d) The woman's father.

4. 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) Happily ever after.
(d) In eternal despair.

5. Why did the wife suggest they build a higher wall around their house?
(a) She wanted their wall higher than their neighbors.
(b) Her husband suggested that someone might still be able to climb in.
(c) She worried her son would climb over their current wall.
(d) She wanted it to block out the sun.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it said would happen if someone tried to get through the tunnel of the security fence the man and woman installed?

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

3. Why did people in the city begin spending time in the suburbs even if they were not housemaids or gardeners?

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

5. What instrument does the narrator cite when describing how "the misbeats of [her] heart tailed off" (24)?

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