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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 information was affixed to some of the security walls of people's houses in the suburbs?
(a) The local police number.
(b) The local homeless shelter.
(c) Who to call in case of emergency.
(d) The company who installed them.

2. What does the mother do to get the boy to sleep at the end of the story?
(a) Watch a movie with him.
(b) Read him a fairy tale.
(c) Sing him a lullaby.
(d) Give him sleeping medication.

3. What adjective is used to describe the gardener in the narrator's tale?
(a) Itinerant.
(b) Patient.
(c) Attentive.
(d) Elegant.

4. What is said to have happened in one family's home while the family was at dinner?
(a) The bedrooms were ransacked.
(b) The bar was raided.
(c) The television was smashed.
(d) The car was stolen.

5. What does the man tell his wife to ease her fears the people from the city will come to their house in the suburbs?
(a) The people of the city will not know how to get there.
(b) The buses will not take them to the city.
(c) There are police and soldiers and tear-gas to keep them away.
(d) The people of the city have no interest in the suburbs.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the incident with a neighbor's housemaid, what did the man and woman's housemaid beg them to do?

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

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

4. What additional security option does the husband and wife choose after comparing various styles in the neighborhood?

5. What words are used to describe the way the sunlight interacts with the serrated metal fencing the man and woman install?

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