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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 do to try to ease some of the feelings leftover from the affair?
(a) Take a class.
(b) Visit family.
(c) Go to public places to be around people.
(d) Go out with friends.

2. What does the narrator think may have been the only bad time with his lover?
(a) When he told her he loved her.
(b) When she asked if she was fat.
(c) When he was too tired to make love.
(d) When she told him she was leaving him.

3. As the narrator was leaving they stood close together looking at what?
(a) A piece of paper she held in her hand.
(b) The door.
(c) The gift she had just given him.
(d) The bed.

4. What does the narrator do to try to numb the feelings after his affair?
(a) Read.
(b) Paint.
(c) Sing.
(d) Write.

5. How often does the narrator figure he thinks of his lover about six weeks after their affair?
(a) All day, every day.
(b) About an hour a day.
(c) Only during waking hours.
(d) 10 - 12 hours a day.

6. How was the narrator beginning to feel the day he had to leave?
(a) Empty.
(b) Energetic.
(c) Enraged.
(d) Excited.

7. What was significant about the night the narrator told his lover that he loved her?
(a) It was their first night.
(b) It was her birthday.
(c) He had proposed to her.
(d) It was their last night.

8. What did the narrator's lover give to him before he left?
(a) Her silk robe.
(b) A bottle of champagne.
(c) Cab fare.
(d) A green and blue shirt.

9. If the narrator calculates the time spent thinking of his lover up to six weeks after the affair, how much does he figure he has spent?
(a) $60 an hour.
(b) $6 an hour.
(c) $24 an hour.
(d) $3 an hour.

10. What does the narrator cite as the other "bad time" (28) he and his lover had?
(a) The time he had to leave.
(b) The time his wife called him.
(c) The time he got too drunk.
(d) The time they ran into her boyfriend.

11. What was the narrator unable to tell his lover before he told her he loved her?
(a) She did not have to feel it was a burden.
(b) He really hoped she felt the same.
(c) He hoped it did not scare her away.
(d) He had never loved anyone before her.

12. How did the narrator's lover respond when he told her he loved her?
(a) She said she loved him too.
(b) She shook her head and got up.
(c) She said she did not feel the same way.
(d) She was quiet.

13. What do the "little questions" (26) the narrator begins to ask himself begin to do to him, as described in the text?
(a) Confuse him.
(b) Make him see the affair for what it was.
(c) Eat away at him.
(d) Nag at him.

14. What did the narrator see as he walked way from the room for the last time?
(a) He lover blowing him a kiss.
(b) His lover looking at him.
(c) The door closing.
(d) His lover walking away.

15. The narrator questions at the end, "How can you go in with...$1000, and...come out with" (30) what?
(a) An old shirt.
(b) Nothing but pain.
(c) A new love.
(d) $0.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator worry he did to his lover by telling her he loved her?

2. What does the narrator say he sometimes feels like when he thinks of his affair?

3. What "comes after [the affair] and lasts longer" (30), according to the narrator?

4. What were the narrator and his lover doing when he first told her he loved her?

5. How does the narrator describe the way his lover responded when he told her he loved her?

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