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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 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 single mother and her child.
(d) A father and his son.

2. According to the narrator's tale, under what conditions were people who lived in the city allowed in the suburbs?
(a) As teachers and secretaries.
(b) As housemaids and gardeners.
(c) As doctors and lawyers.
(d) As nannies and drivers.

3. What type of people are said to live in the city in the tale the narrator tells herself?
(a) People of another color.
(b) Religious people.
(c) Artistic people.
(d) People of a higher caste.

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

5. Who is said to have offered a warning to the man and woman when they started their life together?
(a) The man's mother.
(b) The town councilor.
(c) The woman's father.
(d) The neighbors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did "a certain novelist" say every writer "ought to write at least once" (23)?

2. What adjective is used to describe the gardener in the narrator's tale?

3. What precautions does the narrator say she does not take in her home, despite having the same fears of those that do?

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

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

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