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

2. How was the plaque meant to indicate that the property owner was not racist?
(a) The man was masked so you could not tell if he was Black or white.
(b) It said "All Are Welcome."
(c) It contained a peace sign.
(d) It depicted a Black hand holding a white hand.

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

4. According to the narrator's tale, under what conditions were people who lived in the city allowed in the suburbs?
(a) As housemaids and gardeners.
(b) As doctors and lawyers.
(c) As nannies and drivers.
(d) As teachers and secretaries.

5. What did the husband tell his wife she was doing by giving things to the city people who came to the suburbs?
(a) Helping them.
(b) Wasting their money.
(c) Embarrassing him.
(d) Encouraging them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who lives in the home the narrator describes at the start of her story?

2. Who gave the man and woman money to build a higher wall around their house?

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

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

5. Why did the neighborhood alarms often go unanswered after many had them installed?

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