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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As time passes, the narrator says thoughts of his lover are more in his ______ than his ______?
(a) Imagination, soul.
(b) Mind, body.
(c) Dreams, reality.
(d) Heart, head.

2. The narrator questions at the end, "How can you go in with...$1000, and...come out with" (30) what?
(a) $0.
(b) Nothing but pain.
(c) A new love.
(d) An old shirt.

3. What does the narrator note about his lover as he looks at her in bed when he first wakes?
(a) Her long eyelashes.
(b) How good her skin is.
(c) The sheen of her hair.
(d) Her perfect lips.

4. What were the narrator and his lover doing in the "very clean white place" (24) he recalls?
(a) Making love.
(b) Getting massages.
(c) Drinking martinis.
(d) Having breakfast.

5. What does the narrator worry he did to his lover by telling her he loved her?
(a) Scared her away.
(b) Trapped her into saying it back.
(c) Lied to her.
(d) Made her dislike him.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much does the narrator calculate his love making cost?

2. When the narrator describes watching his lover as she sleeps, what does he say that makes the reader know their time together is temporary?

3. Why does the narrator say he felt he had to tell his lover that he loved her?

4. What do the "little questions" (26) the narrator begins to ask himself begin to do to him, as described in the text?

5. How much was the plane ticket the narrator bought?

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