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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 stare at in her bed as she listens to the sounds in her house?
(a) The floor.
(b) Her reflection in the mirror.
(c) The door.
(d) Her gun.

2. What words are used to describe the sounds the alarms in the suburban neighborhood made?
(a) Bangs and booms.
(b) Jingle jangles.
(c) Shrills, beats, and wails.
(d) Beeps, honks, and toots.

3. What is the gardener doing as he walks back to the house at the end of the story?
(a) Yelling.
(b) Laughing.
(c) Crawling.
(d) Weeping.

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

5. What is described as the "low-cost option" neighbors used to secure their homes?
(a) Broken glass embedded in cement on the tops of walls.
(b) Getting guard dogs.
(c) Setting booby traps.
(d) Getting stickers with security company's names on them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the mother do to get the boy to sleep at the end of the story?

2. Where were the riots said to be in the tale the narrator tells herself?

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

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

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