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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 is the gardener doing as he walks back to the house at the end of the story?
(a) Weeping.
(b) Crawling.
(c) Laughing.
(d) Yelling.

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

3. Who is the first to find the boy at the end of the story?
(a) The man and the woman.
(b) The wise old witch.
(c) The housemaid and the gardener.
(d) The cat.

4. According to the narrator's tale, under what conditions were people who lived in the city allowed in the suburbs?
(a) As housemaids and gardeners.
(b) As doctors and lawyers.
(c) As teachers and secretaries.
(d) As nannies and drivers.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do the intruders get past the iron bars in the suburban homes?

3. Who is said to have offered a warning to the man and woman when they started their life together?

4. What information was affixed to some of the security walls of people's houses in the suburbs?

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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