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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 is it said the house and swimming pool and car could not be insured against?
(a) Riot damage.
(b) Theft.
(c) Flooding.
(d) Fire.

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

3. What is the man's mother called in the narrator's tale?
(a) The wise old witch.
(b) The wicked witch.
(c) The good witch.
(d) The fairy godmother.

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

5. 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) Tag.
(c) Telephone.
(d) Hide and seek.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was the plaque meant to indicate that the property owner was not racist?

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

3. What is the narrator's house built atop?

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

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