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

2. What does the narrator say he becomes afraid of as distance grows between the time spent with his lover and the present?
(a) Having to see her again.
(b) That he may never see her again.
(c) How weak he is.
(d) That his wife may find out.

3. What is the narrator trying to do at the start of the story?
(a) Write his grocery list.
(b) Negotiate a better salary.
(c) Do his annual household budget.
(d) Break down the cost of an affair.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. Why does the narrator decide against kissing his lover's eyelids as he watches her sleep?

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

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