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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of "Once Upon a Time"?
(a) Nadia Golen.
(b) Nancy Greer.
(c) Grace Newsom.
(d) Nadine Gordimer.

2. Who lives in the home the narrator describes at the start of her story?
(a) A father and his son.
(b) A man, and a woman and their son.
(c) A single mother and her child.
(d) An old woman and her adult son.

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

4. After the incident with a neighbor's housemaid, what did the man and woman's housemaid beg them to do?
(a) Move to the country.
(b) Get a gun.
(c) Give her a raise.
(d) Install burglar bars and an alarm system.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What precautions does the narrator say she does not take in her home, despite having the same fears of those that do?

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

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