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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 think may happen if he kisses his lovers eyelids?
(a) She will punch him.
(b) She will wake up and kiss him.
(c) She will frown in her sleep.
(d) She will wake up and yell at him.

2. What was significant about the night the narrator told his lover that he loved her?
(a) It was their last night.
(b) It was their first night.
(c) He had proposed to her.
(d) It was her birthday.

3. How often does the narrator figure he thinks of his lover about six weeks after their affair?
(a) About an hour a day.
(b) Only during waking hours.
(c) All day, every day.
(d) 10 - 12 hours a day.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. As the narrator was leaving they stood close together looking at what?

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

3. What is the narrator trying to do at the start of the story?

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

5. How did the narrator feel when his lover talked "late in the night...faster and faster" (25)?

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