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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 man tell his wife to ease her fears the people from the city will come to their house in the suburbs?
(a) The people of the city will not know how to get there.
(b) There are police and soldiers and tear-gas to keep them away.
(c) The buses will not take them to the city.
(d) The people of the city have no interest in the suburbs.

2. Where did the man and woman get the plaque that said "YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED" (25) when they first began their life together?
(a) The Neighborhood Watch.
(b) A local gift-shop.
(c) The man's mother.
(d) The woman's father.

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

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

5. What does the narrator describe as "finely tuned" in the night?
(a) Her piano.
(b) The universe.
(c) One's senses.
(d) Machinery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the husband do to assuage his wife's fears that people from the city might intrude on their home in the suburbs?

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

3. What adjective is used to describe the gardener in the narrator's tale?

4. What precautions does the narrator say she does not take in her home, despite having the same fears of those that do?

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

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