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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many different register buttons does Sammy press before the register drawer is ejected so that he can provide change to the young woman?

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

3. When Lengel first addresses the young women, he tells them that they are not in what location?

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

5. Who asks Sammy if he has rung up the purchase of the three young women?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the young woman dubbed "Queenie" (5) by Sammy react to Lengel's actions?

2. Describe an example of Updike's use of metaphor within the story.

3. How does Updike demonstrate Sammy's lack of experience with girls and women?

4. In what way do food similes enter the story and for what purpose does Updike use them?

5. What details does Sammy provide about his boss Lengel?

6. Of what crime does Sammy accuse Lengel when he quits?

7. What clues does Sammy utilize in order to detect the class of the young woman he dubs "Queenie" (5)?

8. How does Updike show the childlike and whimsical nature of Sammy's personality in the story?

9. For what reason and in what manner does Lengel confront the three young women in the store?

10. Which comment of Lengel's causes the young woman dubbed "Queenie" (5) to get angry rather than embarrassed?

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