ENGL 203 Short Story "Bullet in the
Brain" Book Notes Exam Questions &
Answers Graded A+
murderous temper - ANSWER-Anders couldn't get to the bank until just before it closed,
so of course the line was endless and he got stuck behind two women whose loud,
stupid conversation put him in a ______________________.
black ski masks - ANSWER-And then the tellers stopped what they were doing, and the
customers slowly turned, and silence came over the bank. Two men wearing
__________________ and blue business suits were standing to the side of the door.
Sherry - ANSWER-He did not remember his first lover, _______________, or what he
had most madly loved about her, before it came to irritate him - her unembarrassed
carnality, and especially the cordial way she had with his unit, which she called Mr.
Mole, as in, "Uh-oh, looks like Mr. Mole wants to play," and "Let's hide Mr. Mole.
predictability - ANSWER-Anders did not remember his wife, whom he had also loved
before she exhausted him with her ____________________, or his daughter, now a
sullen professor of economics at Dartmouth.
baseball - ANSWER-This is what he remembered. Heat. A _____________field. Yellow
grass, the whirr of insects, himself leaning against a tree as the boys of the
neighborhood gather for a pickup game.
Coyle - ANSWER-Then the last two boys arrive, ________________and a cousin of his
from Mississippi.
Brain" Book Notes Exam Questions &
Answers Graded A+
murderous temper - ANSWER-Anders couldn't get to the bank until just before it closed,
so of course the line was endless and he got stuck behind two women whose loud,
stupid conversation put him in a ______________________.
black ski masks - ANSWER-And then the tellers stopped what they were doing, and the
customers slowly turned, and silence came over the bank. Two men wearing
__________________ and blue business suits were standing to the side of the door.
Sherry - ANSWER-He did not remember his first lover, _______________, or what he
had most madly loved about her, before it came to irritate him - her unembarrassed
carnality, and especially the cordial way she had with his unit, which she called Mr.
Mole, as in, "Uh-oh, looks like Mr. Mole wants to play," and "Let's hide Mr. Mole.
predictability - ANSWER-Anders did not remember his wife, whom he had also loved
before she exhausted him with her ____________________, or his daughter, now a
sullen professor of economics at Dartmouth.
baseball - ANSWER-This is what he remembered. Heat. A _____________field. Yellow
grass, the whirr of insects, himself leaning against a tree as the boys of the
neighborhood gather for a pickup game.
Coyle - ANSWER-Then the last two boys arrive, ________________and a cousin of his
from Mississippi.
