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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paragraphs 31-32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator says that he can feel in the silence that "everybody is getting" (20) what?
(a) Nervous.
(b) Angry.
(c) Impatient.
(d) Interested.

2. What verb does Sammy use to indicate the emergence of the drawer from the register?
(a) Crash.
(b) Splash.
(c) Splat.
(d) Cha-ching.

3. Sammy says that Lengel has been a friend to whom for a long time?
(a) Stokesie and his wife.
(b) Sammy's parents.
(c) McMahon and his wife.
(d) Stokesie's parents.

4. What is NOT a register button Sammy hits while ringing up the young woman's purchase?
(a) GROC.
(b) TOT.
(c) 8.
(d) 4.

5. What are the first two syllables of the nonsense word Sammy utters in response to Lengel's comment?
(a) Super.
(b) Fiddle.
(c) Faddle.
(d) Skeedle.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states that when his parents do serve alcoholic beverages at a party, they serve what?

2. What does the sign on Lengel's office door read?

3. To what historical event does the narrator allude when he depicts the "cash-register-watcher" (1)?

4. Remembering what act of Lengel's causes Sammy to feel a particular way "inside" (31) near the end of the story?

5. Who tells Lengel that the young women had only come into the store to pick up one item?

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