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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 27 - 30 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The sounds of the alarms in the suburban neighborhood were likened to which creatures?
(a) Mosquitoes and bluejays.
(b) Bees and grasshoppers.
(c) Blackbirds and crickets.
(d) Frogs and cicadas.

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

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

4. What are some of the things intruders would take from suburban homes?
(a) Computers and cell phones.
(b) Cassette players, radios and jewelry.
(c) Books and DVDs.
(d) Pots and pans and coffee makers.

5. What is said to have happened in one family's home while the family was at dinner?
(a) The bar was raided.
(b) The television was smashed.
(c) The car was stolen.
(d) The bedrooms were ransacked.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did people in the city begin spending time in the suburbs even if they were not housemaids or gardeners?

3. What "most profound" place does the narrator say men may be deep under her home?

4. Who does the little boy pretend to be at the end of the story?

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

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