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

2. What is it said the house and swimming pool and car could not be insured against?
(a) Fire.
(b) Flooding.
(c) Theft.
(d) Riot damage.

3. According to the narrator's tale, who were being shot by the police in the city?
(a) Burglars.
(b) Schoolchildren.
(c) Rioters.
(d) Other police officers.

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

5. What does the narrator stare at in her bed as she listens to the sounds in her house?
(a) Her gun.
(b) Her reflection in the mirror.
(c) The door.
(d) The floor.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who lives in the home the narrator describes at the start of her story?

4. What does the narrator realize is the reason for the creaking sound in her house?

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

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