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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 25 - 30 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator feel he can do if he thinks of his time with his lover too much?
(a) Drive himself crazy.
(b) Make it seem meaningless.
(c) Relive it.
(d) Kill it.

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

3. Why does the narrator decide against kissing his lover's eyelids as he watches her sleep?
(a) He does not want to disturb her.
(b) She would get mad at him.
(c) She has bad breath.
(d) He is too tired.

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

5. What did the narrator's lover give to him before he left?
(a) A green and blue shirt.
(b) Cab fare.
(c) Her silk robe.
(d) A bottle of champagne.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the "little questions" (26) the narrator begins to ask himself begin to do to him, as described in the text?

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

3. What does the narrator say he kept dreaming about while with his lover?

4. What was the narrator unable to tell his lover before he told her he loved her?

5. What does the narrator say he becomes afraid of as distance grows between the time spent with his lover and the present?

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