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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 27 - 30 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator realize is the reason for the creaking sound in her house?
(a) Her cat.
(b) An intruder.
(c) Her housing shifting.
(d) Her child.

2. 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 her a gun.
(b) He has electronically-controlled gates installed.
(c) He buys them a house in the country.
(d) He adds padlocks to their doors.

3. What does the mother do to get the boy to sleep at the end of the story?
(a) Sing him a lullaby.
(b) Give him sleeping medication.
(c) Watch a movie with him.
(d) Read him a fairy tale.

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

5. According to the narrator's tale, under what conditions were people who lived in the city allowed in the suburbs?
(a) As housemaids and gardeners.
(b) As doctors and lawyers.
(c) As nannies and drivers.
(d) As teachers and secretaries.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who runs out of the house second and finds the boy at the end of the story?

2. Which of his son's toys did the man take in from the yard every night in case someone came in?

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

4. What does the narrator stare at in her bed as she listens to the sounds in her house?

5. What were the man and woman and little boy no longer able to admire when they took their dog for walks around the neighborhood?

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