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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 had recommended the gardener to the man and his wife?
(a) The woman's sister.
(b) The man's mother.
(c) The child's teacher.
(d) Neighbors.

2. What does the narrator do when she is unable to go back to sleep?
(a) She writes a letter.
(b) She eats a sandwich.
(c) She reads a book.
(d) She tells herself a story.

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

4. 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.

5. What did "a certain novelist" say every writer "ought to write at least once" (23)?
(a) A thriller.
(b) A haiku.
(c) A children's story.
(d) A screenplay.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What game did the little boy like to play after they installed a speaker at the gates of their home?

3. Why was the swimming pool in the tale fenced in?

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

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

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