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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What woke the narrator in the night at the start of the story?
(a) Her husband.
(b) A rainstorm.
(c) A creaking sound in her house.
(d) The phone ringing.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had recommended the gardener to the man and his wife?

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

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

4. What begins to happen once the riots in the city are suppressed?

5. Who is said to have offered a warning to the man and woman when they started their life together?

Short Essay Questions

1. Despite having the same fears of intruders as other people, what precautions does the narrator say she does not take in her home?

2. What does the man have installed in their house to ease his wife's fears and what does the boy do with them?

3. Why is the narrator unable to sleep at the start of the story?

4. What does the narrator do when she is an able to fall back to sleep at the start of the story?

5. Where does the story the narrator tells herself take palce and who is in the story?

6. Describe the sign the man and woman received from the Neighborhood watch. How was it supposed to "prove the property owner was no racist" (25)?

7. What precautions do the man and woman take against theft or natural disasters when they first move in to their home together?

8. What fears did the man and woman's trusted housemaid begin to have, and what did they do in response to her fears?

9. How is the man's mother described and what warning did she give her son and his wife as they start their life together?

10. How does the husband try to assuage his wife's fears when she worries people from the cities will tear off their warning sign and "open the gates and stream in" (26).

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