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

2. Where does the story the narrator tells herself take place?
(a) An apartment in the city.
(b) A condo by the ocean.
(c) A house in the country.
(d) A house in the suburbs.

3. What does the wife worry the people from the city might come to their home and do some day?
(a) Tear off the plaque and stream in.
(b) Throw bombs and destroy all they have.
(c) Kidnap their maid and gardener.
(d) Go for a swim in their beautiful pool.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the man tell his wife to ease her fears the people from the city will come to their house in the suburbs?

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

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

4. What did the man and woman see outside while they were discussing the latest armed robbery one night?

5. What is said to have happened in one family's home while the family was at dinner?

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