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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 are the man and woman warned against doing as they start their lives together?
(a) Getting a pool.
(b) Living in the suburbs.
(c) Taken anyone in off the street.
(d) Having a child.

2. What "most profound" place does the narrator say men may be deep under her home?
(a) Brooks.
(b) Tombs.
(c) Boats.
(d) Homes.

3. Why was the swimming pool in the tale fenced in?
(a) So the neighbors would not see it.
(b) So intruders would not swim in it.
(c) So the cat and dog would not get in.
(d) So the boy and is friends would not drown.

4. What does someone tell the narrator she should write for an upcoming anthology?
(a) A children's story.
(b) A thriller.
(c) A poem.
(d) A screenplay.

5. Who is the author of "Once Upon a Time"?
(a) Nadine Gordimer.
(b) Nancy Greer.
(c) Grace Newsom.
(d) Nadia Golen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did thieves do to "somebody's trusted housemaid" (26) after the city riots were suppressed?

2. What does the narrator describe as "finely tuned" in the night?

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

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

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

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