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

2. What does the narrator note about his lover as he looks at her in bed when he first wakes?
(a) Her perfect lips.
(b) Her long eyelashes.
(c) The sheen of her hair.
(d) How good her skin is.

3. How did the narrator respond to the surprising question his lover asked him in bed one day?
(a) He told her to stop asking silly questions.
(b) He said she should do whatever she wants.
(c) He said a diet would not hurt.
(d) He said her body was beautiful.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator feel he can do if he thinks of his time with his lover too much?

2. What does the narrator do to try to numb the feelings after his affair?

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

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

5. What does the narrator worry he did to his lover by telling her he loved her?

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