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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what manner are the customers said to turn toward the bank robbers?
(a) Cautiously.
(b) Instantly.
(c) Slowly.
(d) Reluctantly.

2. The narrator characterizes the "peculiar" (10) motion of the man with the shotgun by settling on what term?
(a) Rigidity.
(b) Torpor.
(c) Calm.
(d) Languidity.

3. The man with the pistol presses it to whose neck?
(a) A customer.
(b) The bank manager.
(c) The security guard.
(d) A bank teller.

4. Who says, "Buzz him in" in Paragraph 10?
(a) Anders.
(b) The man with the shotgun.
(c) The woman in line in front of Anders.
(d) The man with the pistol.

5. 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?
(a) Heaven.
(b) Purgatory.
(c) Mount Zion.
(d) Hell.

Short Answer Questions

1. The man with the shotgun has put down what object before he strikes the guard?

2. Anders is said to take what action at his "leisure" (35) in regard to the scene he witnesses from his past?

3. The first appearance of the bullet in what part of the brain "set[s] off" (35) a chain reaction?

4. Anders sarcastically compares the complaint of the woman in front of him to what medical emergency?

5. How many "feet per second" (35) is the bullet said to be moving after it strikes a particular object?

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