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

2. What adjective is used to describe the housemaid in the narrator's tale?
(a) Loquacious.
(b) Eccentric.
(c) Trustworthy.
(d) Itinerant.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the neighborhood alarms often go unanswered after many had them installed?

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

3. What "most profound" place does the narrator say men may be deep under her home?

4. What precautions does the narrator say she does not take in her home, despite having the same fears of those that do?

5. Who says they "hope the cat will take heed" (30) after the serrated metal coils are installed?

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