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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The other young women are described by the narrator as doing what to Queenie as they all walk toward the meat counter?
(a) Huddling against her.
(b) Distancing themselves from her.
(c) Clinging to her.
(d) Pretending not to know her.

4. The narrator tells the reader, "Here comes the" what "part of the story" (12)?
(a) Best.
(b) Exciting.
(c) Dumb.
(d) Sad.

5. The narrator uses what type of fruit to describe one of the young women's faces?
(a) A peach.
(b) A berry.
(c) An orange.
(d) A kumquat.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states that "Policy is what" (19) who wants?

2. What does the narrator describe the young women as wearing?

3. When the narrator imagines the home of the young woman he calls "Queenie" (5), what are the men at the party wearing?

4. The narrator does not see the young women until they are over by what food item?

5. The narrator states that the "free-loaders" (10) arrive when what object has broken yet again?

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