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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 wife worry the people from the city might come to their home and do some day?
(a) Tear off the plaque and stream in.
(b) Go for a swim in their beautiful pool.
(c) Kidnap their maid and gardener.
(d) Throw bombs and destroy all they have.

2. What is it said the house and swimming pool and car could not be insured against?
(a) Flooding.
(b) Theft.
(c) Fire.
(d) Riot damage.

3. 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 have no interest in the suburbs.
(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 will not know how to get there.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did thieves do to "somebody's trusted housemaid" (26) after the city riots were suppressed?

2. Why was the swimming pool in the tale fenced in?

3. What does the narrator realize is the reason for the creaking sound in her house?

4. What is the narrator's house built atop?

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

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