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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sammy says that "once you begin a gesture, it's" what "not to go through with it" (31)?
(a) Cowardly.
(b) Fatal.
(c) Pointless.
(d) Stupid.

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

3. What is the second word of the song Sammy has come to hear when he works the register?
(a) People.
(b) There.
(c) Times.
(d) Happy.

4. What name does the narrator use before saying, "Hold me tight" (8) to Stokesie?
(a) Darling.
(b) Babycakes.
(c) Honey.
(d) Sweetie.

5. The narrator describes Lengel as doing what "all day" (13)?
(a) Yelling.
(b) Hiding.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Moaning.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lengel tells the young women that they must be dressed in what way when they come into the store?

2. 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?

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

4. How does the person who notices the narrator's reaction to Lengel's repeated word feel about the narrator's reaction?

5. Sammy says that Lengel has been friends with a particular pair of people for many what?

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