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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 pets does the family in the narrator's story have at home?
(a) A cat and a dog.
(b) A monkey and a lemur.
(c) A bird and a hamster.
(d) Goldfish and a parakeet.

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

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

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

5. What does the wife worry the people from the city might come to their home and do some day?
(a) Tear off the plaque and stream in.
(b) Go for a swim in their beautiful pool.
(c) Kidnap their maid and gardener.
(d) Throw bombs and destroy all they have.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator realize is the reason for the creaking sound in her house?

3. What were the Chopi and Tsonga people the narrator says may have made the wooden instrument she describes when discussing her heart beating?

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

5. After the incident with a neighbor's housemaid, what did the man and woman's housemaid beg them to do?

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