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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Intelligently.
(b) Calmly.
(c) Quietly.
(d) Sharply.

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

3. How much was the plane ticket the narrator bought?
(a) $150.
(b) $600.
(c) $950.
(d) $1,000.

4. What else did the narrator see in his dreams beyond the dark frame of empty space?
(a) A garden.
(b) A house.
(c) A bed.
(d) A child.

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

6. What color are the narrator's lover's eyes?
(a) Hazel.
(b) Brown.
(c) Blue.
(d) Green.

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

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

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

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

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

12. What is the narrator trying to do at the start of the story?
(a) Write his grocery list.
(b) Do his annual household budget.
(c) Break down the cost of an affair.
(d) Negotiate a better salary.

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

14. How many hours a day does the narrator estimate he spends either with his lover or thinking of her during their time together?
(a) 1-2.
(b) 16 - 18.
(c) 8 or 9.
(d) 4 -8.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The narrator describes that after the affair ends, his lover is still inside him like what?

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

5. What "old" (22) thing does the narrator say he cannot look at without still feeling what he feels his lover?

(see the answer keys)

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