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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. Where did the man and woman get the plaque that said "YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED" (25) when they first began their life together?
2. What begins to happen once the riots in the city are suppressed?
3. What does the narrator do when she is unable to go back to sleep?
4. What does someone tell the narrator she should write for an upcoming anthology?
5. Why was the swimming pool in the tale fenced in?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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).
2. What recent crimes does the narrator describe at the start of the story?
3. 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)?
4. How is the man's mother described and what warning did she give her son and his wife as they start their life together?
5. At the start of "Once Upon a Time," what does the narrator say someone wrote and asked her to do, and how does she feel about this request?
6. After the riots outside the city subsided, what crimes took place in the suburbs?
7. What does the narrator do when she is an able to fall back to sleep at the start of the story?
8. What precautions do the man and woman take against theft or natural disasters when they first move in to their home together?
9. What does the narrator realize is the cause of the creaking she hears in her home 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
Analyze the symbolic significance of the narrator's house in "Once Upon a Time." What themes does the house represent?
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay describing the imagery used in “Once Upon a Time.” Indicate examples of imagery in the text and identify possible meanings.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay about the significance of the riots in "Once Upon a Time." Where do they occur? Why? In what ways are the main characters impacted by these riots?
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