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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 does the narrator worry he did to his lover by telling her he loved her?
(a) Trapped her into saying it back.
(b) Made her dislike him.
(c) Lied to her.
(d) Scared her away.

2. What does the narrator say he sometimes feels like when he thinks of his affair?
(a) A jerk.
(b) A prince.
(c) A casanova.
(d) A loser.

3. What does the narrator do to try to ease some of the feelings leftover from the affair?
(a) Go out with friends.
(b) Take a class.
(c) Visit family.
(d) Go to public places to be around people.

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

5. What does the narrator think may have been the only bad time with his lover?
(a) When he told her he loved her.
(b) When she told him she was leaving him.
(c) When she asked if she was fat.
(d) When he was too tired to make love.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many hours a day does the narrator estimate he spends either with his lover or thinking of her during their time together?

3. How does the narrator describe the way his lover responded when he told her he loved her?

4. What is the "very clean white place" (24) the narrator recalls being with his lover?

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

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