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

2. What does someone tell the narrator she should write for an upcoming anthology?
(a) A poem.
(b) A thriller.
(c) A screenplay.
(d) A children's story.

3. What did the old widower who was murdered have to protect him?
(a) Fierce dogs.
(b) An electronic alarm system.
(c) Guns.
(d) Security guards.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After the incident with a neighbor's housemaid, what did the man and woman's housemaid beg them to do?

3. Why did the neighborhood alarms often go unanswered after many had them installed?

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

5. What did "a certain novelist" say every writer "ought to write at least once" (23)?

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