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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How was the narrator beginning to feel the day he had to leave?
(a) Enraged.
(b) Empty.
(c) Excited.
(d) Energetic.

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

4. What were the narrator and his lover doing in the "very clean white place" (24) he recalls?
(a) Getting massages.
(b) Making love.
(c) Having breakfast.
(d) Drinking martinis.

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?
(a) "She is here today and will be gone tomorrow."
(b) "Our time together is as fleeting as the night."
(c) "She's next to me and isn't away from me like she will be later."
(d) "She is by my side for the time being."

Short Answer Questions

1. After including the time spent with his lover and thinking of her, how much does the narrator estimate their affair costs per hour?

2. As time passes, the narrator says thoughts of his lover are more in his ______ than his ______?

3. The narrator describes staring at the impending pain from an affair in a window and saying what?

4. What else did the narrator see in his dreams beyond the dark frame of empty space?

5. What was the narrator unsure he would be able to do without his lover?

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