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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the man and woman warned against doing as they start their lives together?
(a) Taken anyone in off the street.
(b) Getting a pool.
(c) Having a child.
(d) Living in the suburbs.

2. What is it said the house and swimming pool and car could not be insured against?
(a) Theft.
(b) Flooding.
(c) Fire.
(d) Riot damage.

3. What does the wife worry the people from the city might come to their home and do some day?
(a) Throw bombs and destroy all they have.
(b) Kidnap their maid and gardener.
(c) Go for a swim in their beautiful pool.
(d) Tear off the plaque and stream in.

4. Where does the story the narrator tells herself take place?
(a) A house in the suburbs.
(b) A house in the country.
(c) An apartment in the city.
(d) A condo by the ocean.

5. Who lives in the home the narrator describes at the start of her story?
(a) A father and his son.
(b) A man, and a woman and their son.
(c) A single mother and her child.
(d) An old woman and her adult son.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator's tale, who were being shot by the police in the city?

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

3. Why was the swimming pool in the tale fenced in?

4. Where did the man and woman get the plaque that said "YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED" (25) when they first began their life together?

5. What did the old widower who was murdered have to protect him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What recent crimes does the narrator describe at the start of the story?

2. What fears did the man and woman's trusted housemaid begin to have, and what did they do in response to her fears?

3. How is the man's mother described and what warning did she give her son and his wife as they start their life together?

4. Where does the story the narrator tells herself take palce and who is in the story?

5. What precautions do the man and woman take against theft or natural disasters when they first move in to their home together?

6. Despite having the same fears of intruders as other people, what precautions does the narrator say she does not take in her home?

7. At the start of "Once Upon a Time," what does the narrator say someone wrote and asked her to do, and how does she feel about this request?

8. How does the husband try to assuage his wife's fears when she worries people from the cities will tear off their warning sign and "open the gates and stream in" (26).

9. Describe the sign the man and woman received from the Neighborhood watch. How was it supposed to "prove the property owner was no racist" (25)?

10. What were the man and woman unable to insure their house against, and why did the man tell his wife they need not worry about that?

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