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

2. What instrument does the narrator cite when describing how "the misbeats of [her] heart tailed off" (24)?
(a) Trumpet.
(b) Xylophone.
(c) Saxophone.
(d) Flute.

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

4. What did thieves do to "somebody's trusted housemaid" (26) after the city riots were suppressed?
(a) Made her tell them where all the family jewelry was.
(b) Stabbed her.
(c) Kidnapped her.
(d) Tied her up and shut her in a cupboard.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of people are said to live in the city in the tale the narrator tells herself?

2. What does the narrator stare at in her bed as she listens to the sounds in her house?

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

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

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

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