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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 woman's father.
(c) The town councilor.
(d) The neighbors.

2. What are the man and woman warned against doing as they start their lives together?
(a) Having a child.
(b) Taken anyone in off the street.
(c) Getting a pool.
(d) Living in the suburbs.

3. 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) There are police and soldiers and tear-gas to keep them away.
(b) The people of the city will not know how to get there.
(c) The people of the city have no interest in the suburbs.
(d) The buses will not take them to the city.

4. What woke the narrator in the night at the start of the story?
(a) A creaking sound in her house.
(b) A rainstorm.
(c) The phone ringing.
(d) Her husband.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is it said the house and swimming pool and car could not be insured against?

4. Where does the story the narrator tells herself take place?

5. What instrument does the narrator cite when describing how "the misbeats of [her] heart tailed off" (24)?

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