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

2. 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 buses will not take them to the city.
(b) The people of the city have no interest in the suburbs.
(c) The people of the city will not know how to get there.
(d) There are police and soldiers and tear-gas to keep them away.

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

4. What "most profound" place does the narrator say men may be deep under her home?
(a) Tombs.
(b) Brooks.
(c) Homes.
(d) Boats.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who is said to have offered a warning to the man and woman when they started their life together?

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

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

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