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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 wife worry the people from the city might come to their home and do some day?
(a) Tear off the plaque and stream in.
(b) Kidnap their maid and gardener.
(c) Throw bombs and destroy all they have.
(d) Go for a swim in their beautiful pool.

2. What is the narrator's house built atop?
(a) A garbage dump.
(b) Burial grounds.
(c) Stilts.
(d) Undermined ground.

3. Where did the man and woman get the plaque that said "YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED" (25) when they first began their life together?
(a) The man's mother.
(b) The Neighborhood Watch.
(c) A local gift-shop.
(d) The woman's father.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What adjective is used to describe the gardener in the narrator's tale?

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

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

4. Who had recommended the gardener to the man and his wife?

5. What does the narrator describe as "finely tuned" in the night?

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