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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paragraphs 29-35.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator states that there is "gilt scrollwork" (26) over what feature of the bank?
(a) The front door.
(b) The entryway.
(c) The tellers' cages.
(d) The gate to the vault.

2. What term is used to describe the bags handed to the bank tellers?
(a) Garbage.
(b) Hefty.
(c) Plastic.
(d) Grocery.

3. What consequence does the man with the pistol say he will dole out if Anders takes a certain action?
(a) Anders will be no more.
(b) Anders will be history.
(c) The man will murder Anders's whole family.
(d) The man will fit Anders with a pair of cement shoes.

4. Which figure depicted in the bank ceiling mural appears as a cow?
(a) Persephone.
(b) Pandora.
(c) Europa.
(d) Eve.

5. When the man with the shotgun comes to the empty teller station, at whom does he look?
(a) At the missing teller.
(b) At the bank manager.
(c) At Anders.
(d) At the man with the pistol.

Short Answer Questions

1. What gesture does the misplaced bank teller make before she answers the query about her "slot" (11)?

2. What kind of shoes is the man with the pistol wearing?

3. The memory that emerges within Anders's conscious mind takes place on a day how many years previous?

4. What two adjectives are used to describe the smell Anders detects?

5. What action does the man with the shotgun take the first time he makes physical contact with the security guard?

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