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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 is the "very clean white place" (24) the narrator recalls being with his lover?
(a) A bar.
(b) A spa.
(c) Their hotel room.
(d) A coffee house.

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

3. How did the narrator respond to the surprising question his lover asked him in bed one day?
(a) He said she should do whatever she wants.
(b) He told her to stop asking silly questions.
(c) He said a diet would not hurt.
(d) He said her body was beautiful.

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) Restaurant or bookstore.
(d) Tree or rosebush.

5. What were the narrator and his lover doing in the "very clean white place" (24) he recalls?
(a) Getting massages.
(b) Having breakfast.
(c) Making love.
(d) Drinking martinis.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much was the plane ticket the narrator bought?

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

3. The narrator describes that after watching his lover sleep he finally falls asleep "lightly" (23). Why?

4. How is the narrator's lover's behavior described at the start of the story?

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

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