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

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

3. If the narrator calculates the time spent thinking of his lover up to six weeks after the affair, how much does he figure he has spent?
(a) $3 an hour.
(b) $24 an hour.
(c) $6 an hour.
(d) $60 an hour.

4. Why does the narrator say he felt he had to tell his lover that he loved her?
(a) He thought it would make her stay.
(b) He wanted to scare her away.
(c) He was drunk.
(d) It was bursting inside him.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Aside from the flight, what did the narrator pay for during his trip?

4. How did the narrator's lover respond when he told her he loved her?

5. How did the narrator feel when his lover talked "late in the night...faster and faster" (25)?

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