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

2. 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 adds padlocks to their doors.
(b) He has electronically-controlled gates installed.
(c) He buys her a gun.
(d) He buys them a house in the country.

3. According to the narrator's tale, under what conditions were people who lived in the city allowed in the suburbs?
(a) As teachers and secretaries.
(b) As nannies and drivers.
(c) As doctors and lawyers.
(d) As housemaids and gardeners.

4. What does the man tell his wife to ease her fears the people from the city will come to their house in the suburbs?
(a) The people of the city have no interest in the suburbs.
(b) There are police and soldiers and tear-gas to keep them away.
(c) The people of the city will not know how to get there.
(d) The buses will not take them to the city.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What words are used to describe the way the sunlight interacts with the serrated metal fencing the man and woman install?

3. What "most profound" place does the narrator say men may be deep under her home?

4. What are some of the things intruders would take from suburban homes?

5. What adjective is used to describe the housemaid in the narrator's tale?

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