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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 reason does the narrator give for the casual laborer murdering an old widower?
(a) The old man was a callous employer.
(b) The laborer wanted the old man's antique clocks.
(c) The laborer was dismissed without pay.
(d) The widower would not give the laborer a raise.

2. What instrument does the narrator cite when describing how "the misbeats of [her] heart tailed off" (24)?
(a) Saxophone.
(b) Flute.
(c) Trumpet.
(d) Xylophone.

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

4. What begins to happen once the riots in the city are suppressed?
(a) People in the city move to the suburbs.
(b) Burglaries in the suburbs increase.
(c) People in the suburbs become less fearful.
(d) People in the suburbs move to the city.

5. What adjective is used to describe the housemaid in the narrator's tale?
(a) Trustworthy.
(b) Loquacious.
(c) Eccentric.
(d) Itinerant.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did the man and woman get the plaque that said "YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED" (25) when they first began their life together?

3. What type of people are said to live in the city in the tale the narrator tells herself?

4. What is it said the house and swimming pool and car could not be insured against?

5. What woke the narrator in the night at the start of the story?

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