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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 adjective is used to describe the gardener in the narrator's tale?
(a) Elegant.
(b) Attentive.
(c) Itinerant.
(d) Patient.

2. What precautions does the narrator say she does not take in her home, despite having the same fears of those that do?
(a) She does not have guard dogs or security alarms.
(b) She does not have locks on her doors.
(c) She does not have a phone nearby or a bat under her bed.
(d) She has no burglar bars or gun under her pillow.

3. Where does the story the narrator tells herself take place?
(a) A condo by the ocean.
(b) An apartment in the city.
(c) A house in the country.
(d) A house in the suburbs.

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

5. What does the narrator describe as "finely tuned" in the night?
(a) Her piano.
(b) Machinery.
(c) One's senses.
(d) The universe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had recommended the gardener to the man and his wife?

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

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

4. Where were the riots said to be in the tale the narrator tells herself?

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

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