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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 does the narrator calculate his love making cost?
(a) $80-$100 an hour.
(b) $15 - 20 an hour.
(c) $33-$50 an hour.
(d) $3 or $4 an hour.

2. 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?
(a) Black, plum, dark brown.
(b) Dark brown, auburn, white.
(c) Light brown, red, gold.
(d) Golden, gray, red.

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

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

5. What is the narrator beginning to "lose" (24) in the present regarding his lover?
(a) His love for her.
(b) His understanding of what he saw in her.
(c) HIs desire to see her again.
(d) The feeling of being with her.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator describes that after the affair ends, his lover is still inside him like what?

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

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

5. What does the narrator note about his lover as he looks at her in bed when he first wakes?

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