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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the way his lover responded when he told her he loved her?
(a) With compassion.
(b) A little flat.
(c) A little harsh.
(d) Enthusiastically.

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) Intelligently.
(c) Sharply.
(d) Calmly.

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

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

5. Why was the narrator surprised by the question his lover asked him in bed?
(a) He had just told her how beautiful she was.
(b) He did not think she worried about herself like that.
(c) He had literally just answered that question.
(d) She promised she would not ask him that again.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator think may have been the only bad time with his lover?

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

3. What was the narrator unsure he would be able to do without his lover?

4. What does the narrator feel he can do if he thinks of his time with his lover too much?

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?

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