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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paragraphs 20-28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Anders is unable to get to the bank until "just before" (1) when?
(a) Five o'clock.
(b) Lunch hour.
(c) Closing time.
(d) The shift change.

2. Anders is said to have "conceived his own" (3) what kind of hatred toward the bank teller by the time the woman in front of Anders speaks to him?
(a) Seething.
(b) Icy.
(c) Towering.
(d) Burning.

3. The sign placed into the bank teller's window contains what two words?
(a) Help and me.
(b) One and moment.
(c) Open and now.
(d) Position and closed.

4. Anders sarcastically compares the complaint of the woman in front of him to what medical emergency?
(a) Chopping off the wrong arm.
(b) Chopping off the wrong leg.
(c) Chopping off a finger.
(d) Chopping off an appendage.

5. What phrase does the man with the pistol utter that causes Anders to tell him, "Oh, bravo" (8)?
(a) Dead meat.
(b) Hurry up.
(c) Oh my gosh.
(d) Cement shoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Anders's reply to the question he is asked by the man with the pistol?

2. The woman in front of Anders in line looks at Anders with what type of eyes in Paragraph 9?

3. The man with the pistol presses it to whose neck?

4. Who places a sign in one of the bank tellers' windows?

5. What part of the man with the pistol's body continues to repeat a particular action?

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