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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paragraphs 1-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two adjectives does Anders use to characterize the conversation of the women ahead of him?
(a) Loud and stupid.
(b) Boring and endless.
(c) Inane and superficial.
(d) Boisterous and enigmatic.

2. Immediately after Anders's evocation of a Biblical place, the woman in front of him takes what action?
(a) She shrugs.
(b) She turns her back on Anders.
(c) She sighs.
(d) She sucks in her cheeks.

3. 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) Icy.
(c) Burning.
(d) Seething.

4. As the bank teller speaks to another bank employee, she takes what stance?
(a) She leans against the desk.
(b) She leans against the wall.
(c) She sits down upon the desk.
(d) She sits in a chair at the desk.

5. The women in front of Anders look at the bank teller in what manner when she begins to have a conversation with another bank employee?
(a) With questioning eyes.
(b) Suspiciously.
(c) In a silent plea.
(d) With hatred.

Short Answer Questions

1. What adjective does Anders add as a qualifier to the name he mentally calls the woman in front of him in line?

2. After leaving her position, the bank teller begins to speak to another bank employee who is taking what action?

3. What phrase does the man with the pistol utter that causes Anders to tell him, "Oh, bravo" (8)?

4. Anders is unable to get to the bank until "just before" (1) when?

5. When the customers turn toward the bank robbers, they see the two men standing in what location?

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