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

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

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

4. What is the man's mother called in the narrator's tale?
(a) The good witch.
(b) The wicked witch.
(c) The fairy godmother.
(d) The wise old witch.

5. Where were the riots said to be in the tale the narrator tells herself?
(a) In another country.
(b) In her mind.
(c) In the city.
(d) In a far away land.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the wife worry the people from the city might come to their home and do some day?

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

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

5. What does the narrator realize is the reason for the creaking sound in her house?

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