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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 way the sunlight interacts with the serrated metal fencing the man and woman install?
(a) Zipped and zapped.
(b) Flashed and slashed.
(c) Splished and splashed.
(d) Bounced and pounced.

2. What happens "after the first fixing of [the metal fencing's] razor teeth at the end of the story?
(a) The alarm goes off.
(b) The boy's body is entangled.
(c) The cat's body is entangled.
(d) The dog's body is entangled.

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

4. Who had recommended the gardener to the man and his wife?
(a) The woman's sister.
(b) The child's teacher.
(c) Neighbors.
(d) The man's mother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What additional security option does the husband and wife choose after comparing various styles in the neighborhood?

2. Why did owners of suburban homes particularly mourn when the intruders drank their single malt scotch?

3. What is it said the house and swimming pool and car could not be insured against?

4. According to the narrator's tale, under what conditions were people who lived in the city allowed in the suburbs?

5. What woke the narrator in the night at the start of the story?

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