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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What does the narrator say he becomes afraid of as distance grows between the time spent with his lover and the present?
(a) That his wife may find out.
(b) How weak he is.
(c) Having to see her again.
(d) That he may never see her again.

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

4. What is one of the "little questions" (25) the narrator began asking himself regarding his time with his lover?
(a) Why did she laugh at his jokes sometimes and not others.
(b) Why did she have the light on when he came to bed some nights and off others.
(c) Why did she touch his arm when he spoke sometimes but not others.
(d) Why did she become so distant over time.

5. What word is used to describe the way the narrator's lover responded to his answer to the question she asked him in bed?
(a) Calmly.
(b) Intelligently.
(c) Quietly.
(d) Sharply.

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

7. As time passes, the narrator says thoughts of his lover are more in his ______ than his ______?
(a) Heart, head.
(b) Mind, body.
(c) Dreams, reality.
(d) Imagination, soul.

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

9. What does the narrator say he kept dreaming about while with his lover?
(a) A car.
(b) A doctor's office.
(c) His lover.
(d) A building.

10. Why was the narrator surprised by the question his lover asked him in bed?
(a) He did not think she worried about herself like that.
(b) He had literally just answered that question.
(c) She promised she would not ask him that again.
(d) He had just told her how beautiful she was.

11. What is the narrator beginning to "lose" (24) in the present regarding his lover?
(a) His understanding of what he saw in her.
(b) His love for her.
(c) The feeling of being with her.
(d) HIs desire to see her again.

12. What question does the narrator recall his lover asking him while they were in bed one day?
(a) She asked if he thought she should dye her hair.
(b) She asked if he thought she was pretty or no.
(c) She asked if he thought she was fat.
(d) She asked if he thought she was dumb.

13. How often did the narrator and his lover make love during their time together?
(a) Once a day.
(b) Twice a day.
(c) Once a week.
(d) Every other day.

14. What is the narrator staring at at the start of "Break it Down"?
(a) A cup of coffee.
(b) A piece of paper.
(c) A blank computer screen.
(d) His cell phone.

15. What "old" (22) thing does the narrator say he cannot look at without still feeling what he feels his lover?
(a) Street or painting.
(b) Car or pair of pants.
(c) Restaurant or bookstore.
(d) Tree or rosebush.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How much does the narrator calculate his love making cost?

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

5. Who is the author of "Break It Down"?

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