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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 23 - 26 .

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the old widower who was murdered have to protect him?
(a) Security guards.
(b) Guns.
(c) Fierce dogs.
(d) An electronic alarm system.

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

4. What instrument does the narrator cite when describing how "the misbeats of [her] heart tailed off" (24)?
(a) Trumpet.
(b) Flute.
(c) Xylophone.
(d) Saxophone.

5. What pets does the family in the narrator's story have at home?
(a) A cat and a dog.
(b) A bird and a hamster.
(c) Goldfish and a parakeet.
(d) A monkey and a lemur.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the man's mother called in the narrator's tale?

2. What begins to happen once the riots in the city are suppressed?

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

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

5. What does the man tell his wife to ease her fears the people from the city will come to their house in the suburbs?

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