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

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

3. What "most profound" place does the narrator say men may be deep under her home?
(a) Tombs.
(b) Homes.
(c) Brooks.
(d) Boats.

4. Who says they "hope the cat will take heed" (30) after the serrated metal coils are installed?
(a) The woman.
(b) The wise old witch.
(c) The man.
(d) The boy.

5. What does the mother do to get the boy to sleep at the end of the story?
(a) Read him a fairy tale.
(b) Give him sleeping medication.
(c) Sing him a lullaby.
(d) Watch a movie with him.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator describe as "finely tuned" in the night?

3. What adjective is used to describe the housemaid in the narrator's tale?

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

5. Why did the wife suggest they build a higher wall around their house?

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