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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 reason does the narrator give for the casual laborer murdering an old widower?
(a) The old man was a callous employer.
(b) The widower would not give the laborer a raise.
(c) The laborer wanted the old man's antique clocks.
(d) The laborer was dismissed without pay.

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

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

4. Who had recommended the gardener to the man and his wife?
(a) Neighbors.
(b) The woman's sister.
(c) The child's teacher.
(d) The man's mother.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What instrument does the narrator cite when describing how "the misbeats of [her] heart tailed off" (24)?

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

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

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

5. What does someone tell the narrator she should write for an upcoming anthology?

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