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

2. What are the man and woman warned against doing as they start their lives together?
(a) Living in the suburbs.
(b) Getting a pool.
(c) Taken anyone in off the street.
(d) Having a child.

3. What is the man's mother called in the narrator's tale?
(a) The good witch.
(b) The fairy godmother.
(c) The wise old witch.
(d) The wicked witch.

4. What does the narrator do when she is unable to go back to sleep?
(a) She tells herself a story.
(b) She reads a book.
(c) She writes a letter.
(d) She eats a sandwich.

5. According to the narrator's tale, who were being shot by the police in the city?
(a) Other police officers.
(b) Schoolchildren.
(c) Rioters.
(d) Burglars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the man and woman and little boy no longer able to admire when they took their dog for walks around the neighborhood?

2. Why did the wife suggest they build a higher wall around their house?

3. What is the gardener doing as he walks back to the house at the end of the story?

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

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

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