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

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

3. What did "a certain novelist" say every writer "ought to write at least once" (23)?
(a) A children's story.
(b) A screenplay.
(c) A thriller.
(d) A haiku.

4. After the incident with a neighbor's housemaid, what did the man and woman's housemaid beg them to do?
(a) Give her a raise.
(b) Install burglar bars and an alarm system.
(c) Get a gun.
(d) Move to the country.

5. What is the narrator's house built atop?
(a) Undermined ground.
(b) A garbage dump.
(c) Burial grounds.
(d) Stilts.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is said to have offered a warning to the man and woman when they started their life together?

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

4. What does the husband do to assuage his wife's fears that people from the city might intrude on their home in the suburbs?

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

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