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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 melt them.
(b) They squeeze through them.
(c) They bend them.
(d) They saw through them.

2. What words are used to describe the sounds the alarms in the suburban neighborhood made?
(a) Jingle jangles.
(b) Bangs and booms.
(c) Shrills, beats, and wails.
(d) Beeps, honks, and toots.

3. What did the husband tell his wife she was doing by giving things to the city people who came to the suburbs?
(a) Embarrassing him.
(b) Helping them.
(c) Wasting their money.
(d) Encouraging them.

4. Who gave the man and woman money to build a higher wall around their house?
(a) The woman's father.
(b) They took out a loan.
(c) The neighborhood association.
(d) The man's mother.

5. Why did the wife suggest they build a higher wall around their house?
(a) She wanted it to block out the sun.
(b) She wanted their wall higher than their neighbors.
(c) She worried her son would climb over their current wall.
(d) Her husband suggested that someone might still be able to climb in.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is said to have offered a warning to the man and woman when they started their life together?

2. What does the narrator stare at in her bed as she listens to the sounds in her house?

3. What does the narrator do when she is unable to go back to sleep?

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

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

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