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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the story the narrator tells herself take place?
(a) An apartment in the city.
(b) A condo by the ocean.
(c) A house in the country.
(d) A house in the suburbs.

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

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 buses will not take them to the city.
(c) The people of the city will not know how to get there.
(d) The people of the city have no interest in the suburbs.

4. What "most profound" place does the narrator say men may be deep under her home?
(a) Boats.
(b) Tombs.
(c) Brooks.
(d) Homes.

5. What reason does the narrator give for the casual laborer murdering an old widower?
(a) The widower would not give the laborer a raise.
(b) The old man was a callous employer.
(c) The laborer was dismissed without pay.
(d) The laborer wanted the old man's antique clocks.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What precautions does the narrator say she does not take in her home, despite having the same fears of those that do?

4. Why was the swimming pool in the tale fenced in?

5. What type of people are said to live in the city in the tale the narrator tells herself?

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