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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 does the man tell his wife to ease her fears the people from the city will come to their house in the suburbs?
(a) The buses will not take them to the city.
(b) The people of the city have no interest in the suburbs.
(c) The people of the city will not know how to get there.
(d) There are police and soldiers and tear-gas to keep them away.

2. What does the narrator realize is the reason for the creaking sound in her house?
(a) Her housing shifting.
(b) Her child.
(c) An intruder.
(d) Her cat.

3. What does the narrator describe as "finely tuned" in the night?
(a) Her piano.
(b) One's senses.
(c) The universe.
(d) Machinery.

4. What adjective is used to describe the gardener in the narrator's tale?
(a) Elegant.
(b) Attentive.
(c) Itinerant.
(d) Patient.

5. What does the husband do to assuage his wife's fears that people from the city might intrude on their home in the suburbs?
(a) He buys her a gun.
(b) He adds padlocks to their doors.
(c) He buys them a house in the country.
(d) He has electronically-controlled gates installed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the story the narrator tells herself take place?

2. What were the Chopi and Tsonga people the narrator says may have made the wooden instrument she describes when discussing her heart beating?

3. According to the narrator's tale, who were being shot by the police in the city?

4. What is the narrator's house built atop?

5. What is it said the house and swimming pool and car could not be insured against?

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