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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paragraphs 20-30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sammy describes the customers' actions in the check-out "chute" (30) using what verb?
(a) Banging.
(b) Crashing.
(c) Sliding.
(d) Knocking.

2. In what way does Sammy uncrease the bill handed to him by the young woman he privately calls "Queenie" (5)?
(a) Lovingly.
(b) Briskly.
(c) Tenderly.
(d) Carefully.

3. Which person at the scene does Sammy describe as being the most nervous person there?
(a) Stokesie.
(b) The cash-register-watcher.
(c) Lengel.
(d) McMahon.

4. Sammy spouts a nonsense word that he attributes to which family member?
(a) His baby cousin.
(b) His little sister.
(c) His mother.
(d) His grandmother.

5. Who tells Lengel that the young women had only come into the store to pick up one item?
(a) The young woman in the green plaid bathing suit.
(b) McMahon.
(c) The young woman the narrator calls Queenie.
(d) Stokesie.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says that he can feel in the silence that "everybody is getting" (20) what?

2. What is the first word of the song Sammy has come to hear when he works the register?

3. Where is Stokesie located in relation to the narrator?

4. Lengel is said to give the young women in the store what kind of look?

5. What is a name Sammy does NOT privately call the young women as he watches them walk?

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