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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 did thieves do to "somebody's trusted housemaid" (26) after the city riots were suppressed?
(a) Stabbed her.
(b) Made her tell them where all the family jewelry was.
(c) Kidnapped her.
(d) Tied her up and shut her in a cupboard.

2. 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 a phone nearby or a bat under her bed.
(b) She has no burglar bars or gun under her pillow.
(c) She does not have locks on her doors.
(d) She does not have guard dogs or security alarms.

3. According to the narrator's tale, who were being shot by the police in the city?
(a) Rioters.
(b) Schoolchildren.
(c) Other police officers.
(d) Burglars.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What reason does the narrator give for the casual laborer murdering an old widower?

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

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

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