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

2. How was the plaque meant to indicate that the property owner was not racist?
(a) It depicted a Black hand holding a white hand.
(b) It said "All Are Welcome."
(c) It contained a peace sign.
(d) The man was masked so you could not tell if he was Black or white.

3. What game did the little boy like to play after they installed a speaker at the gates of their home?
(a) Telephone.
(b) Tag.
(c) Hide and seek.
(d) Cops and robbers.

4. Why did the neighborhood alarms often go unanswered after many had them installed?
(a) Pets were setting them off.
(b) They were often on vacation.
(c) Kids would set them off for fun.
(d) They could not tell whose house it was coming from.

5. How are the people in the narrator's story said to be living at the start of her tale?
(a) Carefree and fancy free.
(b) In eternal despair.
(c) Like peas in a pod.
(d) Happily ever after.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Where did the man and woman get the plaque that said "YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED" (25) when they first began their life together?

5. Who is said to have offered a warning to the man and woman when they started their life together?

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