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

2. Where did the man and woman get the plaque that said "YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED" (25) when they first began their life together?
(a) A local gift-shop.
(b) The Neighborhood Watch.
(c) The man's mother.
(d) The woman's father.

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

4. Why did the neighborhood alarms often go unanswered after many had them installed?
(a) Pets were setting them off.
(b) They were often on vacation.
(c) They could not tell whose house it was coming from.
(d) Kids would set them off for fun.

5. What did the old widower who was murdered have to protect him?
(a) Guns.
(b) An electronic alarm system.
(c) Fierce dogs.
(d) Security guards.

Short Answer Questions

1. What pets does the family in the narrator's story have at home?

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

3. Who had recommended the gardener to the man and his wife?

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

5. Who is the author of "Once Upon a Time"?

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