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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator think may happen if he kisses his lovers eyelids?
(a) She will frown in her sleep.
(b) She will wake up and kiss him.
(c) She will punch him.
(d) She will wake up and yell at him.

3. How is the narrator's lover's behavior described at the start of the story?
(a) She was moody and mercurial.
(b) She was always smiling and singing.
(c) She was loud and obnoxious.
(d) She was often quiet and distant.

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

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

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

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 hard it is to break up with her.
(d) How long they have been together.

8. 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.

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) $6.
(b) $24.
(c) $33.
(d) $50.

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

11. The narrator describes that after the affair ends, his lover is still inside him like what?
(a) Dark chocolate.
(b) Sweet liquor.
(c) Decadent dessert.
(d) Warm soup.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator know will happen each day he spends with his lover?

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

3. 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?

4. What does the narrator say he kept dreaming about while with his lover?

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

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