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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 27 - 30 .

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How do the intruders get past the iron bars in the suburban homes?
(a) They saw through them.
(b) They melt them.
(c) They bend them.
(d) They squeeze through them.

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

4. What is described as the "low-cost option" neighbors used to secure their homes?
(a) Getting guard dogs.
(b) Setting booby traps.
(c) Getting stickers with security company's names on them.
(d) Broken glass embedded in cement on the tops of walls.

5. Who does the boy pretend he is saving at the end of the story?
(a) Snow White.
(b) Cinderella.
(c) Sleeping Beauty.
(d) The Little Mermaid.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are some of the things intruders would take from suburban homes?

2. What reason does the narrator give for the casual laborer murdering an old widower?

3. What pets does the family in the narrator's story have at home?

4. Why did the man and the woman not hire any of the people from the city who came seeking jobs?

5. What did the husband tell his wife she was doing by giving things to the city people who came to the suburbs?

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