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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 does the husband do to assuage his wife's fears that people from the city might intrude on their home in the suburbs?
(a) He buys them a house in the country.
(b) He adds padlocks to their doors.
(c) He buys her a gun.
(d) He has electronically-controlled gates installed.

2. What does the narrator describe as "finely tuned" in the night?
(a) Machinery.
(b) The universe.
(c) One's senses.
(d) Her piano.

3. What words are used to describe the sounds the alarms in the suburban neighborhood made?
(a) Beeps, honks, and toots.
(b) Jingle jangles.
(c) Shrills, beats, and wails.
(d) Bangs and booms.

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

5. What game did the little boy like to play after they installed a speaker at the gates of their home?
(a) Hide and seek.
(b) Tag.
(c) Cops and robbers.
(d) Telephone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the gardener doing as he walks back to the house at the end of the story?

2. Where were the riots said to be in the tale the narrator tells herself?

3. What were the Chopi and Tsonga people the narrator says may have made the wooden instrument she describes when discussing her heart beating?

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

5. Who does the little boy pretend to be at the end of the story?

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