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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) Taken anyone in off the street.
(c) Getting a pool.
(d) Having a child.

2. What did "a certain novelist" say every writer "ought to write at least once" (23)?
(a) A screenplay.
(b) A haiku.
(c) A thriller.
(d) A children's story.

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

4. What woke the narrator in the night at the start of the story?
(a) A creaking sound in her house.
(b) Her husband.
(c) A rainstorm.
(d) The phone ringing.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who lives in the home the narrator describes at the start of her story?

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