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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much was the plane ticket the narrator bought?
(a) $600.
(b) $950.
(c) $150.
(d) $1,000.

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

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

4. 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) Street or painting.
(c) Tree or rosebush.
(d) Restaurant or bookstore.

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?
(a) "Our time together is as fleeting as the night."
(b) "She is here today and will be gone tomorrow."
(c) "She is by my side for the time being."
(d) "She's next to me and isn't away from me like she will be later."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What still surprises the narrator about his relationship at the start of the story?

3. What word is used to describe the way the narrator's lover responded to his answer to the question she asked him in bed?

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

5. Why does the narrator decide against kissing his lover's eyelids as he watches her sleep?

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