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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 else did the narrator see in his dreams beyond the dark frame of empty space?
(a) A house.
(b) A garden.
(c) A bed.
(d) A child.

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

3. What is one of the "little questions" (25) the narrator began asking himself regarding his time with his lover?
(a) Why did she have the light on when he came to bed some nights and off others.
(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 become so distant over time.

4. What does the narrator know will happen each day he spends with his lover?
(a) She will stop talking to him.
(b) They will end up in bed together.
(c) They will have an argument.
(d) They will have a fancy dinner.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What "comes after [the affair] and lasts longer" (30), according to the narrator?

2. What is the narrator staring at at the start of "Break it Down"?

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

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

5. What colors does the narrator use to describe his lover's hair when he recalls her looking up at him from the newspaper she was reading?

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