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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) Fire.
(b) Flooding.
(c) Theft.
(d) Riot damage.

2. What does the man tell his wife to ease her fears the people from the city will come to their house in the suburbs?
(a) The people of the city have no interest in the suburbs.
(b) There are police and soldiers and tear-gas to keep them away.
(c) The people of the city will not know how to get there.
(d) The buses will not take them to the city.

3. Where did the man and woman get the plaque that said "YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED" (25) when they first began their life together?
(a) The man's mother.
(b) The Neighborhood Watch.
(c) The woman's father.
(d) A local gift-shop.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does the narrator give for the casual laborer murdering an old widower?

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

3. What game did the little boy like to play after they installed a speaker at the gates of their home?

4. What adjective is used to describe the gardener in the narrator's tale?

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

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