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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 20 -25 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say he kept dreaming about while with his lover?
(a) A building.
(b) His lover.
(c) A car.
(d) A doctor's office.

2. What word is used to describe the way the narrator's lover responded to his answer to the question she asked him in bed?
(a) Quietly.
(b) Sharply.
(c) Calmly.
(d) Intelligently.

3. What was the narrator unsure he would be able to do without his lover?
(a) Go on more vacations.
(b) Go on living.
(c) Save any money.
(d) Get a good job.

4. The narrator describes that after watching his lover sleep he finally falls asleep "lightly" (23). Why?
(a) He wants to protect her from danger.
(b) He wants to hang on to the moment.
(c) He worries she might run out on him.
(d) He wants to wake as soon as she does.

5. When the narrator describes watching his lover as she sleeps, what does he say that makes the reader know their time together is temporary?
(a) "She's next to me and isn't away from me like she will be later."
(b) "She is here today and will be gone tomorrow."
(c) "She is by my side for the time being."
(d) "Our time together is as fleeting as the night."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What color are the narrator's lover's eyes?

3. How would the narrator feel when he closed his eyes and began to dream?

4. As time passes, the narrator says thoughts of his lover are more in his ______ than his ______?

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

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