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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 23 - 26 .

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator do when she is unable to go back to sleep?
(a) She eats a sandwich.
(b) She writes a letter.
(c) She tells herself a story.
(d) She reads a book.

3. According to the narrator's tale, under what conditions were people who lived in the city allowed in the suburbs?
(a) As doctors and lawyers.
(b) As housemaids and gardeners.
(c) As teachers and secretaries.
(d) As nannies and drivers.

4. What does the husband do to assuage his wife's fears that people from the city might intrude on their home in the suburbs?
(a) He buys them a house in the country.
(b) He adds padlocks to their doors.
(c) He buys her a gun.
(d) He has electronically-controlled gates installed.

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) A local gift-shop.
(b) The woman's father.
(c) The Neighborhood Watch.
(d) The man's mother.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did thieves do to "somebody's trusted housemaid" (26) after the city riots were suppressed?

3. What adjective is used to describe the housemaid in the narrator's tale?

4. Where does the story the narrator tells herself take place?

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

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