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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. As time passes, the narrator says thoughts of his lover are more in his ______ than his ______?
(a) Dreams, reality.
(b) Imagination, soul.
(c) Mind, body.
(d) Heart, head.

3. 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 touch his arm when he spoke sometimes but not others.
(c) Why did she have the light on when he came to bed some nights and off others.
(d) Why did she become so distant over time.

4. What does the narrator note about his lover as he looks at her in bed when he first wakes?
(a) Her long eyelashes.
(b) How good her skin is.
(c) The sheen of her hair.
(d) Her perfect lips.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator feel he can do if he thinks of his time with his lover too much?

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

3. What is the "very clean white place" (24) the narrator recalls being with his lover?

4. What colors does the narrator use to describe his lover's hair when he recalls her looking up at him from the newspaper she was reading?

5. What is the narrator trying to do at the start of the story?

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