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

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

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

4. Who is the author of "Break It Down"?
(a) Lynn Donahue.
(b) Danielle Lyons.
(c) Lydia Davis.
(d) Leslie Daniels.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How would the narrator feel when he closed his eyes and began to dream?

3. What question does the narrator recall his lover asking him while they were in bed one day?

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

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

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