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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paragraphs 1-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what historical event does the narrator allude when he depicts the "cash-register-watcher" (1)?
(a) Custer's Last Stand.
(b) The Spanish Inquisition.
(c) The Nuremberg Trials.
(d) The Salem Witch Trials.

2. According to the narrator, the young women are walking in what way as they move about the store?
(a) Clockwise.
(b) Counter-clockwise.
(c) In a zig-zag pattern.
(d) Against the usual traffic.

3. The tallest young woman in the group has what type of hair?
(a) Red and long.
(b) Short and blonde.
(c) Black and frizzy.
(d) Long and blonde.

4. In what location does the young woman who first catches the narrator's eye have "two crescents of white" (1)?
(a) At the tops of the backs of her legs.
(b) Above each eye.
(c) Beneath each eye.
(d) Above her breasts.

5. What term does the narrator use in reference to the women in hair curlers who shop in the A and P?
(a) Housewives.
(b) House-slaves.
(c) Stepford wives.
(d) Housemice.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the lights inside the A and P?

2. In what is Queenie's hair styled?

3. How old is the woman who takes the narrator to task for ringing up her crackers twice, according to the narrator?

4. What does the narrator describe as the source of the bleached appearance of the hair of the young woman he calls "Queenie" (5)?

5. For how many years does the narrator say the woman he calls the "cash-register-watcher" (1) has been waiting for a cashier to make a mistake?

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