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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does someone tell the narrator she should write for an upcoming anthology?
(a) A thriller.
(b) A children's story.
(c) A poem.
(d) A screenplay.

2. Who had recommended the gardener to the man and his wife?
(a) Neighbors.
(b) The child's teacher.
(c) The man's mother.
(d) The woman's sister.

3. How are the people in the narrator's story said to be living at the start of her tale?
(a) Like peas in a pod.
(b) In eternal despair.
(c) Happily ever after.
(d) Carefree and fancy free.

4. 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) There are police and soldiers and tear-gas to keep them away.
(d) The people of the city will not know how to get there.

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

6. Where does the story the narrator tells herself take place?
(a) A condo by the ocean.
(b) An apartment in the city.
(c) A house in the country.
(d) A house in the suburbs.

7. What type of people are said to live in the city in the tale the narrator tells herself?
(a) People of another color.
(b) Religious people.
(c) Artistic people.
(d) People of a higher caste.

8. What did the old widower who was murdered have to protect him?
(a) Fierce dogs.
(b) An electronic alarm system.
(c) Guns.
(d) Security guards.

9. What does the narrator describe as "finely tuned" in the night?
(a) Her piano.
(b) The universe.
(c) One's senses.
(d) Machinery.

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

11. Who is said to have offered a warning to the man and woman when they started their life together?
(a) The woman's father.
(b) The man's mother.
(c) The neighbors.
(d) The town councilor.

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

13. What adjective is used to describe the gardener in the narrator's tale?
(a) Elegant.
(b) Attentive.
(c) Itinerant.
(d) Patient.

14. What does the husband do to assuage his wife's fears that people from the city might intrude on their home in the suburbs?
(a) He buys them a house in the country.
(b) He buys her a gun.
(c) He adds padlocks to their doors.
(d) He has electronically-controlled gates installed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the wife worry the people from the city might come to their home and do some day?

2. Where were the riots said to be in the tale the narrator tells herself?

3. What were the Chopi and Tsonga people the narrator says may have made the wooden instrument she describes when discussing her heart beating?

4. According to the narrator's tale, under what conditions were people who lived in the city allowed in the suburbs?

5. After the incident with a neighbor's housemaid, what did the man and woman's housemaid beg them to do?

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