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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the narrator's house built atop?
(a) Undermined ground.
(b) A garbage dump.
(c) Burial grounds.
(d) Stilts.

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

4. What adjective is used to describe the gardener in the narrator's tale?
(a) Patient.
(b) Elegant.
(c) Itinerant.
(d) Attentive.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does someone tell the narrator she should write for an upcoming anthology?

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

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

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

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

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