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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What reason does the narrator give for the casual laborer murdering an old widower?
(a) The laborer was dismissed without pay.
(b) The laborer wanted the old man's antique clocks.
(c) The widower would not give the laborer a raise.
(d) The old man was a callous employer.

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

4. Why was the swimming pool in the tale fenced in?
(a) So intruders would not swim in it.
(b) So the boy and is friends would not drown.
(c) So the neighbors would not see it.
(d) So the cat and dog would not get in.

5. What does the narrator describe as "finely tuned" in the night?
(a) Her piano.
(b) The universe.
(c) Machinery.
(d) One's senses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What precautions does the narrator say she does not take in her home, despite having the same fears of those that do?

2. Who is said to have offered a warning to the man and woman when they started their life together?

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

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

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

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