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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 23 - 26 .

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What adjective is used to describe the housemaid in the narrator's tale?
(a) Itinerant.
(b) Eccentric.
(c) Loquacious.
(d) Trustworthy.

3. 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) Tied her up and shut her in a cupboard.
(c) Kidnapped her.
(d) Stabbed her.

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

5. 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 neighbors.
(c) The man's mother.
(d) The town councilor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What precautions does the narrator say she does not take in her home, despite having the same fears of those that do?

2. What woke the narrator in the night at the start of the story?

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

4. Where were the riots said to be in the tale the narrator tells herself?

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

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