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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 25 - 30 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator describe how his impending pain looks in an open box in a window?
(a) Hard and cold like metal.
(b) Soft and malleable like clay.
(c) Sharp and pointy like a cactus.
(d) Warm and fuzzy like a puppy.

2. How did the narrator feel when his lover talked "late in the night...faster and faster" (25)?
(a) He liked it but was too tired to understand what she was talking about.
(b) He was annoyed because he wanted to sleep.
(c) He loved it and felt energized by it.
(d) He felt glad their trip was coming to an end.

3. What does the narrator think may happen if he kisses his lovers eyelids?
(a) She will wake up and kiss him.
(b) She will wake up and yell at him.
(c) She will frown in her sleep.
(d) She will punch him.

4. How is the narrator's lover's behavior described at the start of the story?
(a) She was always smiling and singing.
(b) She was loud and obnoxious.
(c) She was moody and mercurial.
(d) She was often quiet and distant.

5. What else did the narrator see in his dreams beyond the dark frame of empty space?
(a) A bed.
(b) A house.
(c) A garden.
(d) A child.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the narrator and his lover doing in the "very clean white place" (24) he recalls?

2. What is the narrator beginning to "lose" (24) in the present regarding his lover?

3. How often did the narrator and his lover make love during their time together?

4. What "keeps happening" (21) between the narrator and his lover while they are together all day, which he says "adds up" (21)?

5. What does the narrator do to try to ease some of the feelings leftover from the affair?

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