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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 does the narrator realize is the reason for the creaking sound in her house?
(a) An intruder.
(b) Her cat.
(c) Her child.
(d) Her housing shifting.

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

3. How are the people in the narrator's story said to be living at the start of her tale?
(a) In eternal despair.
(b) Like peas in a pod.
(c) Happily ever after.
(d) Carefree and fancy free.

4. What are the man and woman warned against doing as they start their lives together?
(a) Having a child.
(b) Living in the suburbs.
(c) Taken anyone in off the street.
(d) Getting a pool.

5. What type of people are said to live in the city in the tale the narrator tells herself?
(a) Religious people.
(b) People of another color.
(c) People of a higher caste.
(d) Artistic people.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How was the plaque meant to indicate that the property owner was not racist?

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

5. Why was the swimming pool in the tale fenced in?

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