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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) An old shirt.
(d) A new love.

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

3. Why does the narrator think he could not let himself fall completely in love with his lover?
(a) He did not fully trust her.
(b) He was not over his last relationship.
(c) He was afraid of commitment.
(d) He knew the affair was going to be so short.

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

5. What is the "very clean white place" (24) the narrator recalls being with his lover?
(a) Their hotel room.
(b) A spa.
(c) A bar.
(d) A coffee house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator do to try to numb the feelings after his affair?

2. What was significant about the night the narrator told his lover that he loved her?

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

4. What question does the narrator recall his lover asking him while they were in bed one day?

5. What did the narrator's lover give to him before he left?

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