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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What adjective does the narrator use to describe the speech of the young woman to whom he refers as "Queenie" (5)?
(a) Slow.
(b) Rapid.
(c) Affected.
(d) Tony.

4. 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 mother.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her aunt.
(d) Her brother.

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

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

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

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

9. The narrator says that the sound of one young woman's voice immediately takes him to what location?
(a) Hell.
(b) Back to reality.
(c) Her living room.
(d) Heaven.

10. The customers "bunch up" (20) in front of whose register?
(a) Lengel.
(b) Stokesie.
(c) The narrator.
(d) McMahon.

11. What are the two terms spoken by the young woman referred to as "Queenie" (5) that the narrator linguistically analyzes?
(a) Pick up and snacks.
(b) Hurry and no.
(c) Take them and go.
(d) Mother and time.

12. What is the third word of the song Sammy has come to hear when he works the register?
(a) Love.
(b) Happy.
(c) Hello.
(d) You.

13. To what flavor of ice cream does Sammy refer when describing the breasts of the young woman he privately calls "Queenie" (5)?
(a) Vanilla.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Mocha.
(d) Cherry.

14. When the narrator imagines the home of the young woman he calls "Queenie" (5), what are the women at the party wearing?
(a) Hot pants.
(b) Sandals.
(c) Gowns.
(d) Miniskirts.

15. The narrator states that when his parents have people over, they serve what non-alcoholic beverage?
(a) Lemonade.
(b) Apple juice.
(c) Kool-Aid.
(d) Soda.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Lengel is said to give the young women in the store what kind of look?

3. What are the final two syllables of the nonsense word Sammy utters to Lengel?

4. What is the fourth word of the song Sammy has come to hear when he works the register?

5. Sammy tells the reader that it is "more" (21) what than they think to run a register?

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