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

2. What did the woman have the housemaid do to the people from the city who hung about looking for work?
(a) Shoo them away.
(b) Give them money.
(c) Bring them clothes.
(d) Bring them bread and tea.

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 entangled in its fangs.
(b) The alarm would go off.
(c) They would get suffocated.
(d) They would get electrocuted.

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

5. What instrument does the narrator cite when describing how "the misbeats of [her] heart tailed off" (24)?
(a) Saxophone.
(b) Trumpet.
(c) Xylophone.
(d) Flute.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator's house built atop?

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

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

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

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

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