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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. In what way does Sammy describe the change he provides to the young woman he calls "Queenie" (5)?
(a) Two quarters and a penny.
(b) A half and a penny.
(c) Five dimes and a penny.
(d) A penny and a half.

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

3. The narrator states that when his parents do serve alcoholic beverages at a party, they serve what?
(a) Wine.
(b) Schlitz.
(c) Budweiser.
(d) Whiskey.

4. Who asks Sammy if he has rung up the purchase of the three young women?
(a) Stokesie.
(b) Lengel.
(c) McMahon.
(d) No one.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Sammy's verbal response to Lengel's question about the register?

2. Sammy spouts a nonsense word that he attributes to which family member?

3. What does the sign on Lengel's office door read?

4. Lengel tells Sammy, "I don't think you know what you're" (29) what?

5. What color is the palm of the young woman whom the narrator calls "Queenie" (5)?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss the socioeconomic status from which Sammy's family stems.

2. What is Lengel's reply to Sammy's accusation?

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

4. Describe Updike's use of foreshadowing within the story "A and P".

5. What is the policy cited by Lengel when he tells the young women they are in violation?

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

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

8. What is ironic about Sammy's claim that Lengel is the most nervous person involved?

9. In what way does Sammy react to Lengel's mention of policy?

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

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