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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is a name Sammy does NOT privately call the young women as he watches them walk?
(a) Plaid.
(b) Big Tall Goony-Goony.
(c) Queenie.
(d) Frizzy.

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

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

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

8. 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) Rouge.
(b) Heat.
(c) Exercise.
(d) Sunburn.

9. Which person at the scene does Sammy describe as being the most nervous person there?
(a) McMahon.
(b) Stokesie.
(c) The cash-register-watcher.
(d) Lengel.

10. The narrator describes Lengel's movements by using what verb?
(a) Striking.
(b) Scuttling.
(c) Scaling.
(d) Creeping.

11. Whom does the young woman referred to as "Queenie" (5) name as the person who had asked her to visit the grocery store?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her aunt.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her mother.

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

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

14. Sammy tells the reader that it is "more" (21) what than they think to run a register?
(a) Difficult.
(b) Complex.
(c) Complicated.
(d) Intuitive.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what farm animals does Sammy compare the customers stranded in his check-out "chute" (30)?

2. What is Sammy's cerebral response to Lengel's question about the register?

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

4. Sammy describes the customers' actions in the check-out "chute" (30) using what verb?

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

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