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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the husband do to assuage his wife's fears that people from the city might intrude on their home in the suburbs?
2. How was the plaque meant to indicate that the property owner was not racist?
3. Who lives in the home the narrator describes at the start of her story?
4. What is the narrator's house built atop?
5. What does the wife worry the people from the city might come to their home and do some day?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is the man's mother described and what warning did she give her son and his wife as they start their life together?
2. 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)?
3. What were the man and woman unable to insure their house against, and why did the man tell his wife they need not worry about that?
4. 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).
5. Despite having the same fears of intruders as other people, what precautions does the narrator say she does not take in her home?
6. After the riots outside the city subsided, what crimes took place in the suburbs?
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 does the narrator realize is the cause of the creaking she hears in her home at the start of the story?
9. What does the narrator do when she is an able to fall back to sleep at the start of the story?
10. What fears did the man and woman's trusted housemaid begin to have, and what did they do in response to her fears?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay examining security devices as a symbol in “Once Upon a Time.” In what scenes do these devices appear? What is the context? How do these devices develop the narrative?
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay analyzing Gordimer's language style and word choice in "Once Upon a Time." What are some words that stand out to you and why? What words are repeated? What words are most impactful? Explain your answers.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay analyzing Gordimer's commentary on race and class in “Once Upon a Time.” How is race and class important to the story? How does it affect the narrative? Use textual evidence to explain your analysis.
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