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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the intruders get past the iron bars in the suburban homes?
(a) They melt them.
(b) They squeeze through them.
(c) They bend them.
(d) They saw through them.

2. What were the man and woman and little boy no longer able to admire when they took their dog for walks around the neighborhood?
(a) Elaborate pools.
(b) Roses and nice lawns.
(c) Neighbors in fancy outfits.
(d) Nice cars.

3. What were the Chopi and Tsonga people the narrator says may have made the wooden instrument she describes when discussing her heart beating?
(a) Burglars.
(b) Farmers.
(c) Migrant miners.
(d) Musicians.

4. What additional security option does the husband and wife choose after comparing various styles in the neighborhood?
(a) 12-inch pikes.
(b) Glass embedded in cement.
(c) Serrated metal coils.
(d) Iron grilles with lance-points.

5. What woke the narrator in the night at the start of the story?
(a) A creaking sound in her house.
(b) Her husband.
(c) A rainstorm.
(d) The phone ringing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it said would happen if someone tried to get through the tunnel of the security fence the man and woman installed?

2. What did "a certain novelist" say every writer "ought to write at least once" (23)?

3. What does the husband do to assuage his wife's fears that people from the city might intrude on their home in the suburbs?

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

5. What words are used to describe the sounds the alarms in the suburban neighborhood made?

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