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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 does the narrator do when she is unable to go back to sleep?
(a) She reads a book.
(b) She tells herself a story.
(c) She eats a sandwich.
(d) She writes a letter.

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

3. Why did the neighborhood alarms often go unanswered after many had them installed?
(a) They were often on vacation.
(b) Pets were setting them off.
(c) They could not tell whose house it was coming from.
(d) Kids would set them off for fun.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was the swimming pool in the tale fenced in?

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

3. What are the man and woman warned against doing as they start their lives together?

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

5. What were the Chopi and Tsonga people the narrator says may have made the wooden instrument she describes when discussing her heart beating?

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