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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Anders turns down the man with the pistol's offer, the man with the pistol says, "Then, stop" (23) what?
(a) Looking at the woman in front of him in line.
(b) Looking at him.
(c) Gazing out the window.
(d) Staring at the ceiling.

2. The man with the pistol asks Anders if he has what condition?
(a) If he has a hero complex.
(b) If he is mute.
(c) If he is slow.
(d) If he is deaf.

3. Who places a sign in one of the bank tellers' windows?
(a) The security guard.
(b) A bank teller.
(c) The bank manager.
(d) The man with the pistol.

4. 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) Towering.
(b) Seething.
(c) Burning.
(d) Icy.

5. Which figure depicted in the bank ceiling mural appears as a bull?
(a) John the Baptist.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Pan.
(d) Adam.

Short Answer Questions

1. The physical bodies of the figures on the ceiling are described using what adjective?

2. Again with the inclusion of sarcasm in his voice, Anders invokes the name of what Biblical place in response to the woman in front of him in line?

3. What term is used to describe the bags handed to the bank tellers?

4. The man with the pistol calls Anders what kind of "boy" (14)?

5. The line in which Anders is waiting is said to be "doubled around the" (2) what?

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