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

2. What woke the narrator in the night at the start of the story?
(a) The phone ringing.
(b) Her husband.
(c) A creaking sound in her house.
(d) A rainstorm.

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

4. What is the man's mother called in the narrator's tale?
(a) The wise old witch.
(b) The good witch.
(c) The fairy godmother.
(d) The wicked witch.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the old widower who was murdered have to protect him?

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

3. What does someone tell the narrator she should write for an upcoming anthology?

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

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

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