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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 did the old widower who was murdered have to protect him?
(a) Fierce dogs.
(b) Security guards.
(c) Guns.
(d) An electronic alarm system.

2. What is the narrator's house built atop?
(a) Stilts.
(b) Burial grounds.
(c) A garbage dump.
(d) Undermined ground.

3. 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 man's mother.
(b) The Neighborhood Watch.
(c) A local gift-shop.
(d) The woman's father.

4. Who is the author of "Once Upon a Time"?
(a) Nancy Greer.
(b) Nadine Gordimer.
(c) Nadia Golen.
(d) Grace Newsom.

5. What game did the little boy like to play after they installed a speaker at the gates of their home?
(a) Cops and robbers.
(b) Tag.
(c) Telephone.
(d) Hide and seek.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the wife worry the people from the city might come to their home and do some day?

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

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

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

5. What begins to happen once the riots in the city are suppressed?

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