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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) $24.
(b) $50.
(c) $6.
(d) $33.

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

3. How often did the narrator and his lover make love during their time together?
(a) Twice a day.
(b) Every other day.
(c) Once a day.
(d) Once a week.

4. What "keeps happening" (21) between the narrator and his lover while they are together all day, which he says "adds up" (21)?
(a) The deep discussions.
(b) The disagreements.
(c) The touches and smiles.
(d) The misunderstandings.

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 laugh at his jokes sometimes and not others.
(d) Why did she have the light on when he came to bed some nights and off others.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How did the narrator feel when his lover talked "late in the night...faster and faster" (25)?

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