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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) Kidnapped her.
(b) Stabbed her.
(c) Tied her up and shut her in a cupboard.
(d) Made her tell them where all the family jewelry was.

2. What does the boy pretend the serrated metal coils are at the end of the story?
(a) A xylophone.
(b) A thicket of thorns.
(c) A ladder.
(d) A secret fortress.

3. What were the Chopi and Tsonga people the narrator says may have made the wooden instrument she describes when discussing her heart beating?
(a) Musicians.
(b) Farmers.
(c) Burglars.
(d) Migrant miners.

4. What does the narrator describe as "finely tuned" in the night?
(a) The universe.
(b) Her piano.
(c) One's senses.
(d) Machinery.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How was the plaque meant to indicate that the property owner was not racist?

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

3. What did the old widower who was murdered have to protect him?

4. What gifts did the man's mother give the little boy for Christmas the year they built a higher wall?

5. Why did the man and the woman not hire any of the people from the city who came seeking jobs?

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