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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 does the narrator stare at in her bed as she listens to the sounds in her house?
(a) Her reflection in the mirror.
(b) The door.
(c) The floor.
(d) Her gun.

2. What were the Chopi and Tsonga people the narrator says may have made the wooden instrument she describes when discussing her heart beating?
(a) Migrant miners.
(b) Musicians.
(c) Burglars.
(d) Farmers.

3. Who is said to have offered a warning to the man and woman when they started their life together?
(a) The neighbors.
(b) The woman's father.
(c) The man's mother.
(d) The town councilor.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What reason does the narrator give for the casual laborer murdering an old widower?

3. What begins to happen once the riots in the city are suppressed?

4. What did the old widower who was murdered have to protect him?

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

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