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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator's tale, who were being shot by the police in the city?
(a) Burglars.
(b) Rioters.
(c) Other police officers.
(d) Schoolchildren.

2. What instrument does the narrator cite when describing how "the misbeats of [her] heart tailed off" (24)?
(a) Flute.
(b) Trumpet.
(c) Xylophone.
(d) Saxophone.

3. What does the husband do to assuage his wife's fears that people from the city might intrude on their home in the suburbs?
(a) He buys them a house in the country.
(b) He buys her a gun.
(c) He adds padlocks to their doors.
(d) He has electronically-controlled gates installed.

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

5. What were the Chopi and Tsonga people the narrator says may have made the wooden instrument she describes when discussing her heart beating?
(a) Migrant miners.
(b) Burglars.
(c) Musicians.
(d) Farmers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What adjective is used to describe the housemaid in the narrator's tale?

2. Who had recommended the gardener to the man and his wife?

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

4. How are the people in the narrator's story said to be living at the start of her tale?

5. What does the narrator realize is the reason for the creaking sound in her house?

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