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

2. What does the mother do to get the boy to sleep at the end of the story?
(a) Watch a movie with him.
(b) Read him a fairy tale.
(c) Give him sleeping medication.
(d) Sing him a lullaby.

3. How are the people in the narrator's story said to be living at the start of her tale?
(a) In eternal despair.
(b) Like peas in a pod.
(c) Carefree and fancy free.
(d) Happily ever after.

4. At the end of the story, what is the coil tunnel said to be "just wide enough for" (30)?
(a) An intruder to squeeze through.
(b) The boy to creep in.
(c) The cat to sleep in.
(d) The rain to seep through.

5. Why did the neighborhood alarms often go unanswered after many had them installed?
(a) They could not tell whose house it was coming from.
(b) Pets were setting them off.
(c) Kids would set them off for fun.
(d) They were often on vacation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the story the narrator tells herself take place?

2. What does the narrator describe as "finely tuned" in the night?

3. What did the housemaid say to the woman who hung about the suburbs looking for work?

4. What were the Chopi and Tsonga people the narrator says may have made the wooden instrument she describes when discussing her heart beating?

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

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