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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 23 - 26 .

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Why was the swimming pool in the tale fenced in?
(a) So intruders would not swim in it.
(b) So the boy and is friends would not drown.
(c) So the neighbors would not see it.
(d) So the cat and dog would not get in.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does someone tell the narrator she should write for an upcoming anthology?

2. How are the people in the narrator's story said to be living at the start of her tale?

3. Who lives in the home the narrator describes at the start of her story?

4. What are the man and woman warned against doing as they start their lives together?

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

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