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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 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.

2. Who is said to have offered a warning to the man and woman when they started their life together?
(a) The man's mother.
(b) The town councilor.
(c) The neighbors.
(d) The woman's father.

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

4. Why was the swimming pool in the tale fenced in?
(a) So intruders would not swim in it.
(b) So the boy and is friends would not drown.
(c) So the neighbors would not see it.
(d) So the cat and dog would not get in.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What "most profound" place does the narrator say men may be deep under her home?

2. What pets does the family in the narrator's story have at home?

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

4. Who lives in the home the narrator describes at the start of her story?

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

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