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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 27 - 30 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the housemaid say to the woman who hung about the suburbs looking for work?
(a) They were loafers.
(b) They were good people.
(c) They were desperate.
(d) They were thieves.

2. What is the gardener doing as he walks back to the house at the end of the story?
(a) Yelling.
(b) Weeping.
(c) Laughing.
(d) Crawling.

3. Why did owners of suburban homes particularly mourn when the intruders drank their single malt scotch?
(a) It was too expensive to replace.
(b) They did not make that kind anymore.
(c) They usually saved it for a special occasion.
(d) They felt the intruders were unable to appreciate what they were drinking.

4. Where did the cat sleep after the serrated metal coils were installed?
(a) The kitchen.
(b) The boy's bed.
(c) The man and woman's bed.
(d) The garden.

5. Why did people in the city begin spending time in the suburbs even if they were not housemaids or gardeners?
(a) They were looking for work.
(b) They had friends in the suburbs.
(c) They were waiting for families to leave so they could rob them.
(d) Their kids were bussed there for school.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the mother do to get the boy to sleep at the end of the story?

3. How is the housemaid described at the end of the story as she walks back to the house?

4. What is the man's mother called in the narrator's tale?

5. What are some of the things intruders would take from suburban homes?

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