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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) A rainstorm.
(c) A creaking sound in her house.
(d) Her husband.

2. In addition to taken items from homes, what did the suburban intruders do in the homes?
(a) Read.
(b) Ate and drank.
(c) Had parties.
(d) Napped.

3. What did the husband tell his wife she was doing by giving things to the city people who came to the suburbs?
(a) Embarrassing him.
(b) Encouraging them.
(c) Wasting their money.
(d) Helping them.

4. What are the man and woman warned against doing as they start their lives together?
(a) Living in the suburbs.
(b) Having a child.
(c) Getting a pool.
(d) Taken anyone in off the street.

5. What is it said the house and swimming pool and car could not be insured against?
(a) Flooding.
(b) Theft.
(c) Fire.
(d) Riot damage.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first to find the boy at the end of the story?

2. Who does the little boy pretend to be at the end of the story?

3. What is the narrator's house built atop?

4. How are the coils the man and woman have installed around their wall described when the workmen are putting them in?

5. Who is the author of "Once Upon a Time"?

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