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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 27 - 30 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In addition to taken items from homes, what did the suburban intruders do in the homes?
(a) Ate and drank.
(b) Read.
(c) Had parties.
(d) Napped.

2. Who does the little boy pretend to be at the end of the story?
(a) A robber.
(b) A Dragon.
(c) A cop.
(d) A Prince.

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

4. What additional security option does the husband and wife choose after comparing various styles in the neighborhood?
(a) Iron grilles with lance-points.
(b) 12-inch pikes.
(c) Serrated metal coils.
(d) Glass embedded in cement.

5. What information was affixed to some of the security walls of people's houses in the suburbs?
(a) Who to call in case of emergency.
(b) The local homeless shelter.
(c) The company who installed them.
(d) The local police number.

Short Answer Questions

1. What instrument does the narrator cite when describing how "the misbeats of [her] heart tailed off" (24)?

2. Why did people in the city begin spending time in the suburbs even if they were not housemaids or gardeners?

3. What adjective is used to describe the gardener in the narrator's tale?

4. What did the man and woman see outside while they were discussing the latest armed robbery one night?

5. What did "a certain novelist" say every writer "ought to write at least once" (23)?

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