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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 was the narrator unsure he would be able to do without his lover?
(a) Save any money.
(b) Go on more vacations.
(c) Get a good job.
(d) Go on living.

2. 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.

3. The narrator questions at the end, "How can you go in with...$1000, and...come out with" (30) what?
(a) $0.
(b) An old shirt.
(c) A new love.
(d) Nothing but pain.

4. 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?
(a) Black, plum, dark brown.
(b) Dark brown, auburn, white.
(c) Light brown, red, gold.
(d) Golden, gray, red.

5. The narrator describes that after the affair ends, his lover is still inside him like what?
(a) Decadent dessert.
(b) Warm soup.
(c) Sweet liquor.
(d) Dark chocolate.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is one of the "little questions" (25) the narrator began asking himself regarding his time with his lover?

3. What is the "very clean white place" (24) the narrator recalls being with his lover?

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

5. When the narrator describes watching his lover as she sleeps, what does he say that makes the reader know their time together is temporary?

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