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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, who were being shot by the police in the city?
(a) Rioters.
(b) Other police officers.
(c) Schoolchildren.
(d) Burglars.

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

3. What precautions does the narrator say she does not take in her home, despite having the same fears of those that do?
(a) She does not have a phone nearby or a bat under her bed.
(b) She does not have guard dogs or security alarms.
(c) She has no burglar bars or gun under her pillow.
(d) She does not have locks on her doors.

4. What type of people are said to live in the city in the tale the narrator tells herself?
(a) People of another color.
(b) People of a higher caste.
(c) Artistic people.
(d) Religious people.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did "a certain novelist" say every writer "ought to write at least once" (23)?

2. According to the narrator's tale, under what conditions were people who lived in the city allowed in the suburbs?

3. Who is the author of "Once Upon a Time"?

4. What instrument does the narrator cite when describing how "the misbeats of [her] heart tailed off" (24)?

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

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