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

2. One of the robbers' comments reminds Anders of what short story?
(a) "The Chrysanthemums."
(b) "A Good Man is Hard to Find."
(c) "The Yellow Wallpaper."
(d) "The Killers."

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

4. Once there is a sign within the bank teller's window, she walks to what location?
(a) To her desk in the lobby.
(b) To the front of the bank.
(c) To the back of the bank.
(d) To the restroom.

5. What adjective is used to describe the line Anders faces when he gets to the bank?
(a) Long.
(b) Short.
(c) Endless.
(d) Jagged.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. The narrator characterizes the "peculiar" (10) motion of the man with the shotgun by settling on what term?

3. Anders refers to the bank robbers using what phrase?

4. Against what part of Anders's body does the man with the pistol press his gun?

5. Just before the man with the pistol prods Anders with the gun once again, Anders begins "to develop a sense of" (20) what?

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