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

2. Who is said to have offered a warning to the man and woman when they started their life together?
(a) The woman's father.
(b) The man's mother.
(c) The town councilor.
(d) The neighbors.

3. What does the narrator describe as "finely tuned" in the night?
(a) Her piano.
(b) Machinery.
(c) One's senses.
(d) The universe.

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

5. According to the narrator's tale, who were being shot by the police in the city?
(a) Burglars.
(b) Other police officers.
(c) Schoolchildren.
(d) Rioters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the man and woman warned against doing as they start their lives together?

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

3. Who lives in the home the narrator describes at the start of her story?

4. How was the plaque meant to indicate that the property owner was not racist?

5. What does someone tell the narrator she should write for an upcoming anthology?

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