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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 is the man's mother called in the narrator's tale?
(a) The wise old witch.
(b) The good witch.
(c) The fairy godmother.
(d) The wicked witch.

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

3. What adjective is used to describe the gardener in the narrator's tale?
(a) Attentive.
(b) Itinerant.
(c) Patient.
(d) Elegant.

4. After the incident with a neighbor's housemaid, what did the man and woman's housemaid beg them to do?
(a) Move to the country.
(b) Install burglar bars and an alarm system.
(c) Get a gun.
(d) Give her a raise.

5. What are the man and woman warned against doing as they start their lives together?
(a) Living in the suburbs.
(b) Getting a pool.
(c) Taken anyone in off the street.
(d) Having a child.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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