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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. The narrator describes Lengel's movements by using what verb?
(a) Scaling.
(b) Scuttling.
(c) Creeping.
(d) Striking.
2. Lengel is said to give the young women in the store what kind of look?
(a) A gaze.
(b) A dagger-like gaze.
(c) A glare.
(d) A stare.
3. When Lengel first addresses the young women, he tells them that they are not in what location?
(a) In a discotheque.
(b) At the beach.
(c) In a club.
(d) In a brothel.
4. What is Sammy's cerebral response to Lengel's question about the register?
(a) Always.
(b) Maybe.
(c) Yes.
(d) No.
5. Who tells Lengel that the young women had only come into the store to pick up one item?
(a) The young woman in the green plaid bathing suit.
(b) Stokesie.
(c) McMahon.
(d) The young woman the narrator calls Queenie.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the third word of the song Sammy has come to hear when he works the register?
2. What is the fourth word of the song Sammy has come to hear when he works the register?
3. The customers "bunch up" (20) in front of whose register?
4. To what farm animals does Sammy compare the customers stranded in his check-out "chute" (30)?
5. The narrator states that only when his parents have people over for a very what kind of "affair" (14) do they serve alcoholic beverages?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Sammy use haste when saying "I quit" (22) the first time?
2. Of what crime does Sammy accuse Lengel when he quits?
3. Describe Updike's use of foreshadowing within the story "A and P".
4. Discuss the socioeconomic status from which Sammy's family stems.
5. What clues does Sammy utilize in order to detect the class of the young woman he dubs "Queenie" (5)?
6. In what way does Sammy react to Lengel's mention of policy?
7. How does Updike show the childlike and whimsical nature of Sammy's personality in the story?
8. What is the policy cited by Lengel when he tells the young women they are in violation?
9. What details does Sammy provide about his boss Lengel?
10. What type of home life does Sammy imagine for the young woman he dubs "Queenie" (5)?
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