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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. How many "feet per second" (35) is the bullet said to be moving after it strikes a particular object?
(a) 60.
(b) 90.
(c) 900.
(d) 400.

2. How many times in total does Anders repeat the word uttered by the man with the pistol just before Anders is shot?
(a) 2.
(b) 6.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

3. What consequence does the man with the pistol say he will dole out if Anders takes a certain action?
(a) Anders will be no more.
(b) Anders will be history.
(c) The man will fit Anders with a pair of cement shoes.
(d) The man will murder Anders's whole family.

4. The narrator states that there is "gilt scrollwork" (26) over what feature of the bank?
(a) The gate to the vault.
(b) The front door.
(c) The entryway.
(d) The tellers' cages.

5. When Anders turns down the man with the pistol's offer, the man with the pistol says, "Then, stop" (23) what?
(a) Gazing out the window.
(b) Staring at the ceiling.
(c) Looking at him.
(d) Looking at the woman in front of him in line.

Short Answer Questions

1. The figures painted on the bank ceiling are wearing what garments of clothing?

2. What male figure does Anders reflect upon as he is gazing at the bank ceiling?

3. The physical bodies of the figures on the ceiling are described using what adjective?

4. What adjective is used to describe the shoes of the man with the pistol?

5. The man with the pistol tells Anders that if Anders takes what action, the man will dole out a consequence?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Anders's reply to the question he is asked the third time he is called "Bright boy" (27)?

2. What threat does the man with the pistol make against Anders before shooting him?

3. Discuss an instance of irony within Anders's final moments.

4. Wolff compares the speeds of what two objects within Paragraph 35?

5. The man with the pistol wonders aloud if Anders views him in what way?

6. In what way does the narrator make a distinction between different kinds of time?

7. What event causes Anders to imagine a cartoon bubble and what does it say?

8. To what question does Anders answer, "No" in Paragraph 20 before he fights to maintain decorum?

9. How many years ago had the event at the center of Anders's one witnessed memory taken place?

10. Discuss an instance of irony within the story.

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