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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 one of the "little questions" (25) the narrator began asking himself regarding his time with his lover?
(a) Why did she laugh at his jokes sometimes and not others.
(b) Why did she have the light on when he came to bed some nights and off others.
(c) Why did she touch his arm when he spoke sometimes but not others.
(d) Why did she become so distant over time.

2. Why does the narrator decide against kissing his lover's eyelids as he watches her sleep?
(a) She has bad breath.
(b) She would get mad at him.
(c) He does not want to disturb her.
(d) He is too tired.

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

4. What "old" (22) thing does the narrator say he cannot look at without still feeling what he feels his lover?
(a) Street or painting.
(b) Car or pair of pants.
(c) Tree or rosebush.
(d) Restaurant or bookstore.

5. How many hours a day does the narrator estimate he spends either with his lover or thinking of her during their time together?
(a) 1-2.
(b) 8 or 9.
(c) 16 - 18.
(d) 4 -8.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "Break It Down"?

2. When the narrator describes watching his lover as she sleeps, what does he say that makes the reader know their time together is temporary?

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

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

5. What question does the narrator recall his lover asking him while they were in bed one day?

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