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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. When the customers turn toward the bank robbers, they see the two men standing in what location?
(a) To the left of the restroom.
(b) Just outside of the bank doors.
(c) To the side of the door.
(d) In front of the bank manager's desk.

2. Anders sarcastically compares the complaint of the woman in front of him to what social issue?
(a) Sexism.
(b) Poverty.
(c) War.
(d) Hunger.

3. What word is used to describe the weight of the man with the shotgun?
(a) Portly.
(b) Fat.
(c) Heavy.
(d) Thin.

4. Anders refers to the bank robbers using what phrase?
(a) The dangerous classes.
(b) The brutish classes.
(c) The lower classes.
(d) The ignorant classes.

5. The man with the pistol calls Anders what kind of "boy" (14)?
(a) Bright.
(b) Naive.
(c) Bank.
(d) Brave.

Short Answer Questions

1. The woman in front of Anders in line looks at Anders with what type of eyes in Paragraph 9?

2. What verb is used to describe the fastening of the guard's hands together?

3. Anders uses what term to mentally describe the woman in front of him in line who has just spoken to him?

4. Who looks at the misplaced bank teller after someone asks the question, "Whose slot is that" (11)?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. For what purpose does the man with the sawed-off shotgun put down his weapon at one point?

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

3. What does the man with the sawed-off shotgun do with his weapon when he needs both hands to complete a different task?

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

5. How does Wolff use allusion within the story?

6. In what way is Anders shown to be hypocritical within the opening scene of the story?

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

8. Provide an account of the chain reaction that leads to Wolff's revelation of the story's main conflict.

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

10. What is the first turn of phrase used by the man with the pistol that interests Anders and why?

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