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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What instrument does the narrator cite when describing how "the misbeats of [her] heart tailed off" (24)?
(a) Saxophone.
(b) Flute.
(c) Xylophone.
(d) Trumpet.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator stare at in her bed as she listens to the sounds in her house?

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

3. What does the man tell his wife to ease her fears the people from the city will come to their house in the suburbs?

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

5. Who had recommended the gardener to the man and his wife?

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