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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 did the woman have the housemaid do to the people from the city who hung about looking for work?
(a) Bring them bread and tea.
(b) Give them money.
(c) Shoo them away.
(d) Bring them clothes.

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

3. What is the name of the company that installs the security fence the man and woman have installed toward the end of the story?
(a) Snake Bite.
(b) Wolf Fangs.
(c) Dragon's Teeth.
(d) Bear Claws.

4. What does the wife worry the people from the city might come to their home and do some day?
(a) Throw bombs and destroy all they have.
(b) Tear off the plaque and stream in.
(c) Kidnap their maid and gardener.
(d) Go for a swim in their beautiful pool.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the coils the man and woman have installed around their wall described when the workmen are putting them in?

2. What are some of the things intruders would take from suburban homes?

3. What did "a certain novelist" say every writer "ought to write at least once" (23)?

4. What words are used to describe the sounds the alarms in the suburban neighborhood made?

5. The sounds of the alarms in the suburban neighborhood were likened to which creatures?

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