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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who is the author of "Once Upon a Time"?
(a) Nadia Golen.
(b) Nadine Gordimer.
(c) Grace Newsom.
(d) Nancy Greer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first to find the boy at the end of the story?

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

3. After the incident with a neighbor's housemaid, what did the man and woman's housemaid beg them to do?

4. What happens "after the first fixing of [the metal fencing's] razor teeth at the end of the story?

5. Who does the little boy pretend to be at the end of the story?

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