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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who lives in the home the narrator describes at the start of her story?
(a) A man, and a woman and their son.
(b) A father and his son.
(c) A single mother and her child.
(d) An old woman and her adult son.

2. What precautions does the narrator say she does not take in her home, despite having the same fears of those that do?
(a) She does not have locks on her doors.
(b) She does not have a phone nearby or a bat under her bed.
(c) She has no burglar bars or gun under her pillow.
(d) She does not have guard dogs or security alarms.

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

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

5. Why did the neighborhood alarms often go unanswered after many had them installed?
(a) They could not tell whose house it was coming from.
(b) Kids would set them off for fun.
(c) They were often on vacation.
(d) Pets were setting them off.

Short Answer Questions

1. What begins to happen once the riots in the city are suppressed?

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

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

4. What reason does the narrator give for the casual laborer murdering an old widower?

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

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