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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 game did the little boy like to play after they installed a speaker at the gates of their home?
(a) Cops and robbers.
(b) Telephone.
(c) Tag.
(d) Hide and seek.

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

3. How are the people in the narrator's story said to be living at the start of her tale?
(a) Like peas in a pod.
(b) Carefree and fancy free.
(c) In eternal despair.
(d) Happily ever after.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where were the riots said to be in the tale the narrator tells herself?

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

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. What does the narrator stare at in her bed as she listens to the sounds in her house?

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