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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the incident with a neighbor's housemaid, what did the man and woman's housemaid beg them to do?
(a) Move to the country.
(b) Install burglar bars and an alarm system.
(c) Get a gun.
(d) Give her a raise.

2. What were the Chopi and Tsonga people the narrator says may have made the wooden instrument she describes when discussing her heart beating?
(a) Farmers.
(b) Musicians.
(c) Migrant miners.
(d) Burglars.

3. Where does the story the narrator tells herself take place?
(a) A house in the suburbs.
(b) An apartment in the city.
(c) A condo by the ocean.
(d) A house in the country.

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

5. What did "a certain novelist" say every writer "ought to write at least once" (23)?
(a) A haiku.
(b) A screenplay.
(c) A children's story.
(d) A thriller.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator do when she is unable to go back to sleep?

3. What pets does the family in the narrator's story have at home?

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

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

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