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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator feel he can do if he thinks of his time with his lover too much?
(a) Kill it.
(b) Drive himself crazy.
(c) Relive it.
(d) Make it seem meaningless.

3. How much does the narrator calculate his love making cost?
(a) $3 or $4 an hour.
(b) $15 - 20 an hour.
(c) $33-$50 an hour.
(d) $80-$100 an hour.

4. 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 her body was beautiful.
(c) He said a diet would not hurt.
(d) He said she should do whatever she wants.

5. How would the narrator feel when he closed his eyes and began to dream?
(a) Frightened.
(b) Peaceful.
(c) Depressed.
(d) Anxious.

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

7. What still surprises the narrator about his relationship at the start of the story?
(a) How much they have in common.
(b) How lucky he is to have her.
(c) How long they have been together.
(d) How hard it is to break up with her.

8. Aside from the flight, what did the narrator pay for during his trip?
(a) Massages and tours.
(b) A new suit and tie.
(c) Silk pajamas.
(d) Hotel and food.

9. After including the time spent with his lover and thinking of her, how much does the narrator estimate their affair costs per hour?
(a) $33.
(b) $24.
(c) $50.
(d) $6.

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

11. How did the narrator feel when his lover talked "late in the night...faster and faster" (25)?
(a) He liked it but was too tired to understand what she was talking about.
(b) He felt glad their trip was coming to an end.
(c) He was annoyed because he wanted to sleep.
(d) He loved it and felt energized by it.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes that after watching his lover sleep he finally falls asleep "lightly" (23). Why?

2. How is the narrator's lover's behavior described at the start of the story?

3. What word is used to describe the way the narrator's lover responded to his answer to the question she asked him in bed?

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. What does the narrator note about his lover as he looks at her in bed when he first wakes?

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