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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 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) Golden, gray, red.
(c) Light brown, red, gold.
(d) Dark brown, auburn, white.

2. What color are the narrator's lover's eyes?
(a) Blue.
(b) Brown.
(c) Hazel.
(d) Green.

3. What word is used to describe the way the narrator's lover responded to his answer to the question she asked him in bed?
(a) Calmly.
(b) Sharply.
(c) Quietly.
(d) Intelligently.

4. What does the narrator say he kept dreaming about while with his lover?
(a) A doctor's office.
(b) A building.
(c) A car.
(d) His lover.

5. What was the narrator unsure he would be able to do without his lover?
(a) Save any money.
(b) Go on living.
(c) Go on more vacations.
(d) Get a good job.

Short Answer Questions

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

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. What is the narrator staring at at the start of "Break it Down"?

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

5. What does the narrator know will happen each day he spends with his lover?

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