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

2. Where does the story the narrator tells herself take place?
(a) An apartment in the city.
(b) A house in the suburbs.
(c) A condo by the ocean.
(d) A house in the country.

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

4. What precautions does the narrator say she does not take in her home, despite having the same fears of those that do?
(a) She does not have locks on her doors.
(b) She does not have a phone nearby or a bat under her bed.
(c) She does not have guard dogs or security alarms.
(d) She has no burglar bars or gun under her pillow.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the people in the narrator's story said to be living at the start of her tale?

2. Why did the neighborhood alarms often go unanswered after many had them installed?

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

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

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

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