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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of "Once Upon a Time"?
(a) Nancy Greer.
(b) Nadine Gordimer.
(c) Nadia Golen.
(d) Grace Newsom.

2. Where does the story the narrator tells herself take place?
(a) An apartment in the city.
(b) A house in the suburbs.
(c) A house in the country.
(d) A condo by the ocean.

3. What begins to happen once the riots in the city are suppressed?
(a) People in the suburbs move to the city.
(b) People in the suburbs become less fearful.
(c) People in the city move to the suburbs.
(d) Burglaries in the suburbs increase.

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

5. What were the Chopi and Tsonga people the narrator says may have made the wooden instrument she describes when discussing her heart beating?
(a) Migrant miners.
(b) Burglars.
(c) Farmers.
(d) Musicians.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the incident with a neighbor's housemaid, what did the man and woman's housemaid beg them to do?

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

3. What "most profound" place does the narrator say men may be deep under her home?

4. What is the man's mother called in the narrator's tale?

5. What game did the little boy like to play after they installed a speaker at the gates of their home?

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