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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 20 -25 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Tree or rosebush.
(d) Street or painting.

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

3. What colors does the narrator use to describe his lover's hair when he recalls her looking up at him from the newspaper she was reading?
(a) Light brown, red, gold.
(b) Golden, gray, red.
(c) Black, plum, dark brown.
(d) Dark brown, auburn, white.

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

5. What is one of the "little questions" (25) the narrator began asking himself regarding his time with his lover?
(a) Why did she become so distant over time.
(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 laugh at his jokes sometimes and not others.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How much does the narrator calculate his love making cost?

3. How would the narrator feel when he closed his eyes and began to dream?

4. What "keeps happening" (21) between the narrator and his lover while they are together all day, which he says "adds up" (21)?

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

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