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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator stare at in her bed as she listens to the sounds in her house?
(a) The door.
(b) The floor.
(c) Her reflection in the mirror.
(d) Her gun.

2. 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.

3. What is it said the house and swimming pool and car could not be insured against?
(a) Fire.
(b) Flooding.
(c) Theft.
(d) Riot damage.

4. What is the narrator's house built atop?
(a) Undermined ground.
(b) Stilts.
(c) A garbage dump.
(d) Burial grounds.

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?
(a) He has electronically-controlled gates installed.
(b) He adds padlocks to their doors.
(c) He buys them a house in the country.
(d) He buys her a gun.

6. What begins to happen once the riots in the city are suppressed?
(a) People in the suburbs move to the city.
(b) People in the suburbs become less fearful.
(c) People in the city move to the suburbs.
(d) Burglaries in the suburbs increase.

7. What "most profound" place does the narrator say men may be deep under her home?
(a) Tombs.
(b) Brooks.
(c) Boats.
(d) Homes.

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

9. Where were the riots said to be in the tale the narrator tells herself?
(a) In a far away land.
(b) In the city.
(c) In her mind.
(d) In another country.

10. After the incident with a neighbor's housemaid, what did the man and woman's housemaid beg them to do?
(a) Get a gun.
(b) Move to the country.
(c) Give her a raise.
(d) Install burglar bars and an alarm system.

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

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

13. Who is the author of "Once Upon a Time"?
(a) Grace Newsom.
(b) Nadia Golen.
(c) Nancy Greer.
(d) Nadine Gordimer.

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

15. What pets does the family in the narrator's story have at home?
(a) A bird and a hamster.
(b) A cat and a dog.
(c) Goldfish and a parakeet.
(d) A monkey and a lemur.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the story the narrator tells herself take place?

2. What is the man's mother called in the narrator's tale?

3. What are the man and woman warned against doing as they start their lives together?

4. What does someone tell the narrator she should write for an upcoming anthology?

5. What does the narrator do when she is unable to go back to sleep?

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