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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 is one of the "little questions" (25) the narrator began asking himself regarding his time with his lover?
(a) Why did she laugh at his jokes sometimes and not others.
(b) Why did she become so distant over time.
(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. 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) Quietly.
(b) Sharply.
(c) Intelligently.
(d) Calmly.

3. How is the narrator's lover's behavior described at the start of the story?
(a) She was always smiling and singing.
(b) She was moody and mercurial.
(c) She was often quiet and distant.
(d) She was loud and obnoxious.

4. The narrator describes staring at the impending pain from an affair in a window and saying what?
(a) "I'll borrow it for just a moment."
(b) "Can I return it if I don't like it."
(c) "I'll take it."
(d) "Nothing, just walking away."

5. What does the narrator think may have been the only bad time with his lover?
(a) When he was too tired to make love.
(b) When she told him she was leaving him.
(c) When he told her he loved her.
(d) When she asked if she was fat.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much does the narrator calculate his love making cost?

2. Why does the narrator decide against kissing his lover's eyelids as he watches her sleep?

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

4. How did the narrator's lover respond when he told her he loved her?

5. What did the narrator see as he walked way from the room for the last time?

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