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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 is one of the "little questions" (25) the narrator began asking himself regarding his time with his lover?
(a) Why did she laugh at his jokes sometimes and not others.
(b) Why did she touch his arm when he spoke sometimes but not others.
(c) Why did she have the light on when he came to bed some nights and off others.
(d) Why did she become so distant over time.

2. The narrator describes staring at the impending pain from an affair in a window and saying what?
(a) "I'll take it."
(b) "Can I return it if I don't like it."
(c) "Nothing, just walking away."
(d) "I'll borrow it for just a moment."

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

4. What "keeps happening" (21) between the narrator and his lover while they are together all day, which he says "adds up" (21)?
(a) The misunderstandings.
(b) The touches and smiles.
(c) The disagreements.
(d) The deep discussions.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator think he could not let himself fall completely in love with his lover?

2. How does the narrator describe how his impending pain looks in an open box in a window?

3. What were the narrator and his lover doing when he first told her he loved her?

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

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

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