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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the intruders get past the iron bars in the suburban homes?
(a) They squeeze through them.
(b) They melt them.
(c) They saw through them.
(d) They bend them.

2. Why did owners of suburban homes particularly mourn when the intruders drank their single malt scotch?
(a) They usually saved it for a special occasion.
(b) They did not make that kind anymore.
(c) They felt the intruders were unable to appreciate what they were drinking.
(d) It was too expensive to replace.

3. How is the housemaid described at the end of the story as she walks back to the house?
(a) Hopeless.
(b) Melancholy.
(c) Hysterical.
(d) Speechless.

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

5. Where were the riots said to be in the tale the narrator tells herself?
(a) In a far away land.
(b) In another country.
(c) In her mind.
(d) In the city.

Short Answer Questions

1. In addition to taken items from homes, what did the suburban intruders do in the homes?

2. What does someone tell the narrator she should write for an upcoming anthology?

3. What did the husband tell his wife she was doing by giving things to the city people who came to the suburbs?

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

5. What are the man and woman warned against doing as they start their lives together?

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