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

2. How is the housemaid described at the end of the story as she walks back to the house?
(a) Hopeless.
(b) Speechless.
(c) Hysterical.
(d) Melancholy.

3. What did the woman have the housemaid do to the people from the city who hung about looking for work?
(a) Shoo them away.
(b) Bring them clothes.
(c) Give them money.
(d) Bring them bread and tea.

4. What does the man tell his wife to ease her fears the people from the city will come to their house in the suburbs?
(a) The people of the city have no interest in the suburbs.
(b) The buses will not take them to the city.
(c) There are police and soldiers and tear-gas to keep them away.
(d) The people of the city will not know how to get there.

5. What does the narrator realize is the reason for the creaking sound in her house?
(a) Her cat.
(b) Her housing shifting.
(c) Her child.
(d) An intruder.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the company that installs the security fence the man and woman have installed toward the end of the story?

2. At the end of the story, what is the coil tunnel said to be "just wide enough for" (30)?

3. Why was the swimming pool in the tale fenced in?

4. What does the narrator stare at in her bed as she listens to the sounds in her house?

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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