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

2. What does the little boy drag to the wall while he is playing make believe at the end of the story?
(a) His tricycle.
(b) The cat.
(c) Garden stones.
(d) A ladder.

3. What is it said would happen if someone tried to get through the tunnel of the security fence the man and woman installed?
(a) They would get suffocated.
(b) They would get entangled in its fangs.
(c) They would get electrocuted.
(d) The alarm would go off.

4. How are the coils the man and woman have installed around their wall described when the workmen are putting them in?
(a) Razor-bladed.
(b) Sharp as a knife.
(c) Fierce and cutting.
(d) Serrated and stinging.

5. Why did the man and the woman not hire any of the people from the city who came seeking jobs?
(a) They did not need any extra help.
(b) They had no resumes.
(c) They could not afford to pay anyone else.
(d) They had been warned by his mother not to take anyone in off the street.

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

3. Where did the man and woman get the plaque that said "YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED" (25) when they first began their life together?

4. What does the husband do to assuage his wife's fears that people from the city might intrude on their home in the suburbs?

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

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