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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator's tale, under what conditions were people who lived in the city allowed in the suburbs?
(a) As housemaids and gardeners.
(b) As teachers and secretaries.
(c) As doctors and lawyers.
(d) As nannies and drivers.

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

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

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

5. What did thieves do to "somebody's trusted housemaid" (26) after the city riots were suppressed?
(a) Stabbed her.
(b) Made her tell them where all the family jewelry was.
(c) Tied her up and shut her in a cupboard.
(d) Kidnapped her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of people are said to live in the city in the tale the narrator tells herself?

2. What instrument does the narrator cite when describing how "the misbeats of [her] heart tailed off" (24)?

3. Why did the neighborhood alarms often go unanswered after many had them installed?

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

5. What is it said the house and swimming pool and car could not be insured against?

(see the answer key)

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