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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) "She's next to me and isn't away from me like she will be later."
(d) "Our time together is as fleeting as the night."

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

5. 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) Light brown, red, gold.
(b) Black, plum, dark brown.
(c) Dark brown, auburn, white.
(d) Golden, gray, red.

6. 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.

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

8. 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 her body was beautiful.
(d) He said a diet would not hurt.

9. 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.

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

11. 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 liked it but was too tired to understand what she was talking about.
(d) He was annoyed because he wanted to sleep.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the narrator trying to do at the start of the story?

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

5. What were the narrator and his lover doing in the "very clean white place" (24) he recalls?

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