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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. What is a name Sammy does NOT privately call the young women as he watches them walk?
(a) Queenie.
(b) Frizzy.
(c) Plaid.
(d) Big Tall Goony-Goony.

2. The narrator describes the young woman he calls "Queenie" (5) as doing what to two different words?
(a) Lisping them out.
(b) Spitting them out.
(c) Tripping over them.
(d) Ticking over them.

3. What word does Lengel repeat when he speaks to the young women for the second time?
(a) Beach.
(b) Girls.
(c) Indecent.
(d) Ladies.

4. Who notices when the narrator reacts in a particular way to Lengel's repetition of one word?
(a) Stokesie.
(b) The cash-register-watcher.
(c) McMahon.
(d) Lengel.

5. The narrator says that the truck parked outside of the A and P is full of what?
(a) Teenagers.
(b) Cabbages.
(c) Farmhands.
(d) Tourists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first word of the song Sammy has come to hear when he works the register?

2. To what farm animals does Sammy compare the customers stranded in his check-out "chute" (30)?

3. The customers "bunch up" (20) in front of whose register?

4. What adjective does Sammy use to describe the hand shape of the young woman to whom he gives change?

5. As the young woman referred to as "Queenie" (5) answers Lengel, she takes what action?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss a possible reason for Lengel's request for Sammy to repeat his words "I quit" (22).

2. Describe Updike's use of foreshadowing within the story "A and P".

3. In what way do food similes enter the story and for what purpose does Updike use them?

4. What is the policy cited by Lengel when he tells the young women they are in violation?

5. What is Lengel's reply to Sammy's accusation?

6. For what reason and in what manner does Lengel confront the three young women in the store?

7. How does Updike demonstrate Sammy's lack of experience with girls and women?

8. Describe an example of Updike's use of metaphor within the story.

9. What clues does Sammy utilize in order to detect the class of the young woman he dubs "Queenie" (5)?

10. How does the young woman dubbed "Queenie" (5) by Sammy react to Lengel's actions?

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