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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What colors does the narrator use to describe his lover's hair when he recalls her looking up at him from the newspaper she was reading?
(a) Black, plum, dark brown.
(b) Golden, gray, red.
(c) Light brown, red, gold.
(d) Dark brown, auburn, white.

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

3. What "old" (22) thing does the narrator say he cannot look at without still feeling what he feels his lover?
(a) Tree or rosebush.
(b) Car or pair of pants.
(c) Restaurant or bookstore.
(d) Street or painting.

4. What does the narrator know will happen each day he spends with his lover?
(a) They will have a fancy dinner.
(b) She will stop talking to him.
(c) They will have an argument.
(d) They will end up in bed together.

5. What does the narrator feel he can do if he thinks of his time with his lover too much?
(a) Kill it.
(b) Relive it.
(c) Make it seem meaningless.
(d) Drive himself crazy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the narrator feel when his lover talked "late in the night...faster and faster" (25)?

2. How did the narrator respond to the surprising question his lover asked him in bed one day?

3. How was the narrator beginning to feel the day he had to leave?

4. What does the narrator worry he did to his lover by telling her he loved her?

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

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