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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the wife worry the people from the city might come to their home and do some day?
(a) Kidnap their maid and gardener.
(b) Go for a swim in their beautiful pool.
(c) Throw bombs and destroy all they have.
(d) Tear off the plaque and stream in.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. What did "a certain novelist" say every writer "ought to write at least once" (23)?
(a) A screenplay.
(b) A children's story.
(c) A thriller.
(d) A haiku.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How are the people in the narrator's story said to be living at the start of her tale?

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

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

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

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