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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 is it said the house and swimming pool and car could not be insured against?
(a) Theft.
(b) Flooding.
(c) Riot damage.
(d) Fire.

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

3. What begins to happen once the riots in the city are suppressed?
(a) People in the suburbs move to the city.
(b) People in the suburbs become less fearful.
(c) Burglaries in the suburbs increase.
(d) People in the city move to the suburbs.

4. What is the man's mother called in the narrator's tale?
(a) The good witch.
(b) The wise old witch.
(c) The wicked witch.
(d) The fairy godmother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the company that installs the security fence the man and woman have installed toward the end of the story?

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

3. What precautions does the narrator say she does not take in her home, despite having the same fears of those that do?

4. Who gave the man and woman money to build a higher wall around their house?

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

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