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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 the narrator trying to do at the start of the story?
(a) Do his annual household budget.
(b) Break down the cost of an affair.
(c) Negotiate a better salary.
(d) Write his grocery list.

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

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

4. What does the narrator say he becomes afraid of as distance grows between the time spent with his lover and the present?
(a) That he may never see her again.
(b) Having to see her again.
(c) How weak he is.
(d) That his wife may find out.

5. How did the narrator respond to the surprising question his lover asked him in bed one day?
(a) He told her to stop asking silly questions.
(b) He said she should do whatever she wants.
(c) He said a diet would not hurt.
(d) He said her body was beautiful.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator think may happen if he kisses his lovers eyelids?

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

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

5. What "old" (22) thing does the narrator say he cannot look at without still feeling what he feels his lover?

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