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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 husband do to assuage his wife's fears that people from the city might intrude on their home in the suburbs?
(a) He buys her a gun.
(b) He has electronically-controlled gates installed.
(c) He adds padlocks to their doors.
(d) He buys them a house in the country.

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

3. What precautions does the narrator say she does not take in her home, despite having the same fears of those that do?
(a) She does not have a phone nearby or a bat under her bed.
(b) She has no burglar bars or gun under her pillow.
(c) She does not have guard dogs or security alarms.
(d) She does not have locks on her doors.

4. How was the plaque meant to indicate that the property owner was not racist?
(a) The man was masked so you could not tell if he was Black or white.
(b) It said "All Are Welcome."
(c) It depicted a Black hand holding a white hand.
(d) It contained a peace sign.

5. What does someone tell the narrator she should write for an upcoming anthology?
(a) A thriller.
(b) A screenplay.
(c) A children's story.
(d) A poem.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does the narrator give for the casual laborer murdering an old widower?

2. Where were the riots said to be in the tale the narrator tells herself?

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

4. What did "a certain novelist" say every writer "ought to write at least once" (23)?

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

(see the answer key)

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