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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 game did the little boy like to play after they installed a speaker at the gates of their home?
(a) Cops and robbers.
(b) Telephone.
(c) Hide and seek.
(d) Tag.

2. What are some of the things intruders would take from suburban homes?
(a) Books and DVDs.
(b) Computers and cell phones.
(c) Cassette players, radios and jewelry.
(d) Pots and pans and coffee makers.

3. After the incident with a neighbor's housemaid, what did the man and woman's housemaid beg them to do?
(a) Move to the country.
(b) Give her a raise.
(c) Install burglar bars and an alarm system.
(d) Get a gun.

4. What does the boy pretend the serrated metal coils are at the end of the story?
(a) A secret fortress.
(b) A thicket of thorns.
(c) A ladder.
(d) A xylophone.

5. What adjective is used to describe the housemaid in the narrator's tale?
(a) Trustworthy.
(b) Loquacious.
(c) Eccentric.
(d) Itinerant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the mother do to get the boy to sleep at the end of the story?

2. Which of his son's toys did the man take in from the yard every night in case someone came in?

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

4. Who runs out of the house second and finds the boy at the end of the story?

5. How are the coils the man and woman have installed around their wall described when the workmen are putting them in?

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