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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) Grace Newsom.
(b) Nancy Greer.
(c) Nadia Golen.
(d) Nadine Gordimer.

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

3. What does the wife worry the people from the city might come to their home and do some day?
(a) Kidnap their maid and gardener.
(b) Throw bombs and destroy all they have.
(c) Go for a swim in their beautiful pool.
(d) Tear off the plaque and stream in.

4. What game did the little boy like to play after they installed a speaker at the gates of their home?
(a) Tag.
(b) Hide and seek.
(c) Telephone.
(d) Cops and robbers.

5. Who lives in the home the narrator describes at the start of her story?
(a) A man, and a woman and their son.
(b) An old woman and her adult son.
(c) A father and his son.
(d) A single mother and her child.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the old widower who was murdered have to protect him?

2. According to the narrator's tale, under what conditions were people who lived in the city allowed in the suburbs?

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

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

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?

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