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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does the person who notices the narrator's reaction to Lengel's repeated word feel about the narrator's reaction?
(a) He is shocked.
(b) He does not like it.
(c) He finds it funny.
(d) He likes it.

4. Lengel performs what function within his church?
(a) He is the custodian.
(b) He teaches Sunday school.
(c) He is a deacon.
(d) He is a reverend.

5. What are the final two syllables of the nonsense word Sammy utters to Lengel?
(a) Dee-dee.
(b) Da-dee.
(c) De-doo.
(d) Doo-da.

6. The narrator describes the young woman he calls "Queenie" (5) as doing what to two different words?
(a) Tripping over them.
(b) Ticking over them.
(c) Lisping them out.
(d) Spitting them out.

7. The narrator says that the truck parked outside of the A and P is full of what?
(a) Tourists.
(b) Farmhands.
(c) Cabbages.
(d) Teenagers.

8. What had Lengel been doing in the parking lot before entering the store to confront the young women?
(a) Smoking.
(b) Sweeping.
(c) Talking.
(d) Haggling.

9. What word does the narrator use to describe the young woman wearing the green plaid bathing suit?
(a) Thin.
(b) Lanky.
(c) Tall.
(d) Chunky.

10. Sammy says that once a person uses the cash register enough, "it begins to make a little" (21) what?
(a) Hum.
(b) Song.
(c) Sense.
(d) Poem.

11. What verb does Sammy use when describing his removal of his apron?
(a) Shrugging.
(b) Exiting.
(c) Peeling.
(d) Shirking.

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

13. Sammy describes the customers' actions in the check-out "chute" (30) using what verb?
(a) Banging.
(b) Sliding.
(c) Knocking.
(d) Crashing.

14. What adjective does the narrator use to describe Lengel when he states that Lengel is a church-involved man?
(a) Dreary.
(b) Hypocritical.
(c) Devoted.
(d) Staunch.

15. For what reason does Stokesie deliberately and quietly take a particular action?
(a) He wants to hear what is going on.
(b) He feels self-conscious around young women.
(c) He does not want to make Sammy angry.
(d) He does not want to make his boss angry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does the young woman referred to as "Queenie" (5) name as the person who had asked her to visit the grocery store?

2. In what way does Sammy describe the change he provides to the young woman he calls "Queenie" (5)?

3. In what way does Sammy uncrease the bill handed to him by the young woman he privately calls "Queenie" (5)?

4. As the young woman referred to as "Queenie" (5) answers Lengel, she takes what action?

5. What word does Lengel repeat when he speaks to the young women for the second time?

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