“A&P” Questions
1) What is the setting of the story?
2) Provide three adjectives to describe Sammy.
3) What does Sammy compare his first customer to (paragraph 2)?
4) Why do you think Sammy’s attention is drawn toward “Queenie”?
5) What is Sammy’s attitude toward his job?
6) What is the effect of Sammy’s statement, “Now here comes the sad
part of the story, at least my family says it’s sad but I don’t think it’s
sad myself”?
7) Describe Lengel’s attitude toward the girls.
8) Why does Sammy quit his job?
9) Locate a simile in the third last paragraph and explain the comparison
made.
10) What is the climax of the story?
11) What is the turning point of the story?
12) What incident earlier in the story might be an example of
foreshadowing.
13) How does Sammy’s attitude change toward the girls over the course
of the story?
14) What do you think Sammy means by, “my stomach kind of fell as I felt
how hard the world was going to be hereafter”?
15) What is the theme of the story? Provide at least 2 reasons for your
answer, with direct reference to the story.