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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT an action the narrator describes as being part of the other customers' reactions to seeing the young women?
(a) Jerk.
(b) Hiccup.
(c) Jump.
(d) Hop.

2. One of the young women picks up a package of what before putting it back?
(a) Cookies.
(b) Clam dip.
(c) Tampons.
(d) Tea.

3. How many young women walk into the grocery store at the start of the story?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

4. How old is the woman who takes the narrator to task for ringing up her crackers twice, according to the narrator?
(a) 20.
(b) 40.
(c) 50.
(d) 30.

5. The narrator asks the reader in reference to females, "Do you really think there's a mind in there or just a buzz like a" what "in a glass jar" (2)?
(a) Cricket.
(b) Bee.
(c) Fluorescent light bulb.
(d) Doorbell.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what location does the young woman who first catches the narrator's eye have "two crescents of white" (1)?

2. What kind of pattern does the floor at the A and P have?

3. In what is Queenie's hair styled?

4. According to the narrator, the young women are walking in what way as they move about the store?

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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