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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) Fire.
(d) Flooding.

2. Who is the author of "Once Upon a Time"?
(a) Grace Newsom.
(b) Nadine Gordimer.
(c) Nancy Greer.
(d) Nadia Golen.

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

4. What did thieves do to "somebody's trusted housemaid" (26) after the city riots were suppressed?
(a) Tied her up and shut her in a cupboard.
(b) Made her tell them where all the family jewelry was.
(c) Kidnapped her.
(d) Stabbed her.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. According to the narrator's tale, who were being shot by the police in the city?

4. After the incident with a neighbor's housemaid, what did the man and woman's housemaid beg them to do?

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

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