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

2. What does the wife worry the people from the city might come to their home and do some day?
(a) Go for a swim in their beautiful pool.
(b) Throw bombs and destroy all they have.
(c) Kidnap their maid and gardener.
(d) Tear off the plaque and stream in.

3. What precautions does the narrator say she does not take in her home, despite having the same fears of those that do?
(a) She does not have guard dogs or security alarms.
(b) She does not have locks on her doors.
(c) She has no burglar bars or gun under her pillow.
(d) She does not have a phone nearby or a bat under her bed.

4. Who had recommended the gardener to the man and his wife?
(a) Neighbors.
(b) The child's teacher.
(c) The man's mother.
(d) The woman's sister.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What were the Chopi and Tsonga people the narrator says may have made the wooden instrument she describes when discussing her heart beating?

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

4. Why did the neighborhood alarms often go unanswered after many had them installed?

5. What does the husband do to assuage his wife's fears that people from the city might intrude on their home in the suburbs?

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