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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 finds it funny.
(c) He likes it.
(d) He does not like it.

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

4. When Lengel first addresses the young women, he tells them that they are not in what location?
(a) At the beach.
(b) In a brothel.
(c) In a discotheque.
(d) In a club.

5. What adjective does Sammy use to describe the hand shape of the young woman to whom he gives change?
(a) Flat.
(b) Narrow.
(c) Slim.
(d) Curved.

6. The narrator states that only when his parents have people over for a very what kind of "affair" (14) do they serve alcoholic beverages?
(a) Racy.
(b) Fancy.
(c) Special.
(d) Business.

7. Lengel is said to give the young women in the store what kind of look?
(a) A stare.
(b) A glare.
(c) A gaze.
(d) A dagger-like gaze.

8. What is the fourth word of the song Sammy has come to hear when he works the register?
(a) Goodbye.
(b) Fun.
(c) People.
(d) Happy.

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

10. What fruit does the narrator use in a simile describing the quiet way in which Stokesie takes a particular action?
(a) A peach.
(b) A lime.
(c) A banana.
(d) A lemon.

11. The narrator at first thinks that one of the young women is blushing, but then thinks that she may be red for what other reason?
(a) Exercise.
(b) Heat.
(c) Sunburn.
(d) Rouge.

12. What color is the palm of the young woman whom the narrator calls "Queenie" (5)?
(a) Cream.
(b) Alabaster.
(c) Rose.
(d) Pink.

13. In what way does Sammy uncrease the bill handed to him by the young woman he privately calls "Queenie" (5)?
(a) Carefully.
(b) Briskly.
(c) Tenderly.
(d) Lovingly.

14. What word does Lengel repeat when he speaks to the young women for the second time?
(a) Indecent.
(b) Beach.
(c) Ladies.
(d) Girls.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says that the sound of one young woman's voice immediately takes him to what location?

2. What adjective does the narrator use to describe the speech of the young woman to whom he refers as "Queenie" (5)?

3. The narrator states that what "the others want is" (19) what?

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

5. The young woman referred to as "Queenie" (5) replies to Lengel's comments by saying that the three young women are what?

(see the answer keys)

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