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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who asks the question, "Whose slot is that" (11)?
(a) The woman in line in front of Anders.
(b) The man with the pistol.
(c) The bank manager
(d) The man with the shotgun.

2. What is said to come "over the bank" (6) just after all of the customers turn?
(a) A silence.
(b) A helicopter.
(c) A hush.
(d) A trance.

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

4. Who is the first character to whom Anders speaks after the robbery begins?
(a) The misplaced bank teller.
(b) The woman in front of him in line.
(c) The man with the pistol.
(d) The bank manager.

5. Who hands the bags to the bank tellers?
(a) The man with the shotgun.
(b) The man with the pistol.
(c) Anders.
(d) The bank manager.

Short Answer Questions

1. The object toward which the man with the shotgun moves after striking the guard is located "at the end of" (10) what?

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

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

4. The woman in front of Anders says that she thinks that the bank is treating their customers in what "way" (4)?

5. When the man with the shotgun comes to the empty teller station, at whom does he look?

Short Essay Questions

1. What evidence points to the conclusion that Wolff wants the reader to view Anders's actions as selfish?

2. Describe the setting in the opening of the story "Bullet in the Brain."

3. Anders refers to the conflict at the center of the story as what object? Why?

4. What evidence suggests that the robbers are indeed following a script of sorts throughout the robbery?

5. Describe the man with the sawed-off shotgun.

6. What is the main conflict at the center of the story and who is involved in that conflict?

7. What is the first command the man with the pistol gives to Anders and how does Anders respond?

8. What two-word name does the man with the pistol call Anders?

9. At what time of day does the story take place?

10. What is the first question the man with the pistol asks Anders and what is Anders's reply?

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