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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 did thieves do to "somebody's trusted housemaid" (26) after the city riots were suppressed?
(a) Made her tell them where all the family jewelry was.
(b) Tied her up and shut her in a cupboard.
(c) Stabbed her.
(d) Kidnapped her.

2. What are some of the things intruders would take from suburban homes?
(a) Computers and cell phones.
(b) Pots and pans and coffee makers.
(c) Cassette players, radios and jewelry.
(d) Books and DVDs.

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

4. What is the narrator's house built atop?
(a) Stilts.
(b) Undermined ground.
(c) A garbage dump.
(d) Burial grounds.

5. What does the husband do to assuage his wife's fears that people from the city might intrude on their home in the suburbs?
(a) He buys her a gun.
(b) He buys them a house in the country.
(c) He has electronically-controlled gates installed.
(d) He adds padlocks to their doors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What information was affixed to some of the security walls of people's houses in the suburbs?

2. How are the people in the narrator's story said to be living at the start of her tale?

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

5. What pets does the family in the narrator's story have at home?

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