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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 23 - 26 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did "a certain novelist" say every writer "ought to write at least once" (23)?
(a) A children's story.
(b) A haiku.
(c) A thriller.
(d) A screenplay.

2. What pets does the family in the narrator's story have at home?
(a) A monkey and a lemur.
(b) A cat and a dog.
(c) A bird and a hamster.
(d) Goldfish and a parakeet.

3. What begins to happen once the riots in the city are suppressed?
(a) Burglaries in the suburbs increase.
(b) People in the suburbs become less fearful.
(c) People in the city move to the suburbs.
(d) People in the suburbs move to the city.

4. What does the husband do to assuage his wife's fears that people from the city might intrude on their home in the suburbs?
(a) He has electronically-controlled gates installed.
(b) He buys her a gun.
(c) He buys them a house in the country.
(d) He adds padlocks to their doors.

5. According to the narrator's tale, who were being shot by the police in the city?
(a) Schoolchildren.
(b) Rioters.
(c) Other police officers.
(d) Burglars.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the story the narrator tells herself take place?

2. What were the Chopi and Tsonga people the narrator says may have made the wooden instrument she describes when discussing her heart beating?

3. What does the narrator do when she is unable to go back to sleep?

4. What adjective is used to describe the gardener in the narrator's tale?

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

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