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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Sammy's cerebral response to Lengel's question about the register?
(a) Maybe.
(b) Always.
(c) Yes.
(d) No.

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

3. Lengel tells Sammy, "I don't think you know what you're" (29) what?
(a) Leaving.
(b) Saying.
(c) Ruining.
(d) Doing.

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

5. What term does the narrator use to describe the intensity of the eye color of the young woman he calls "Queenie" (5)?
(a) Extremely.
(b) Very.
(c) Majorly.
(d) Completely.

6. Lengel tells the young women that they must be dressed in what way when they come into the store?
(a) Appropriately.
(b) Decently.
(c) Fully.
(d) Completely.

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

8. Stokesie takes what action deliberately and quietly?
(a) Coughs.
(b) Shakes open a bag.
(c) Counts back a customer's change.
(d) Rings up purchases.

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

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

11. What adjective does Sammy add to the farm animal simile he creates?
(a) Hungry.
(b) Scared.
(c) Sick.
(d) Pleased.

12. In what type of glasses do the narrator's parents serve alcoholic beverages at parties?
(a) Short.
(b) Tiny.
(c) Skinny.
(d) Tall.

13. What is Sammy's verbal response to Lengel's question about the register?
(a) Maybe.
(b) No.
(c) Usually.
(d) Yes.

14. The narrator states that "Policy is what" (19) who wants?
(a) The establishment.
(b) The boss.
(c) The man.
(d) The kingpins.

15. To what farm animals does Sammy compare the customers stranded in his check-out "chute" (30)?
(a) Cows.
(b) Hens.
(c) Pigs.
(d) Ducks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term does Lengel use when he address the young women in the store?

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

3. What verb does Sammy use to describe his action of giving change?

4. What adjective does Sammy use to describe the hand shape of the young woman to whom he gives change?

5. Sammy says that nearby the altercation between Lengel and the young women, he can feel "everybody getting" (21) what?

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