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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 does the narrator stare at in her bed as she listens to the sounds in her house?
(a) Her gun.
(b) Her reflection in the mirror.
(c) The door.
(d) The floor.

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

3. After the incident with a neighbor's housemaid, what did the man and woman's housemaid beg them to do?
(a) Install burglar bars and an alarm system.
(b) Get a gun.
(c) Move to the country.
(d) Give her a raise.

4. What is the narrator's house built atop?
(a) Stilts.
(b) Burial grounds.
(c) Undermined ground.
(d) A garbage dump.

5. Who lives in the home the narrator describes at the start of her story?
(a) A man, and a woman and their son.
(b) A single mother and her child.
(c) A father and his son.
(d) An old woman and her adult son.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the wife worry the people from the city might come to their home and do some day?

3. According to the narrator's tale, under what conditions were people who lived in the city allowed in the suburbs?

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

5. What are the man and woman warned against doing as they start their lives together?

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