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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After including the time spent with his lover and thinking of her, how much does the narrator estimate their affair costs per hour?
(a) $33.
(b) $50.
(c) $24.
(d) $6.

2. How would the narrator feel when he closed his eyes and began to dream?
(a) Anxious.
(b) Depressed.
(c) Frightened.
(d) Peaceful.

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

4. What else did the narrator see in his dreams beyond the dark frame of empty space?
(a) A garden.
(b) A child.
(c) A bed.
(d) A house.

5. 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) Intelligently.
(b) Sharply.
(c) Quietly.
(d) Calmly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say he becomes afraid of as distance grows between the time spent with his lover and the present?

2. What does the narrator know will happen each day he spends with his lover?

3. How often did the narrator and his lover make love during their time together?

4. What "old" (22) thing does the narrator say he cannot look at without still feeling what he feels his lover?

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

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