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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 laugh at his jokes sometimes and not others.
(c) Why did she touch his arm when he spoke sometimes but not others.
(d) Why did she have the light on when he came to bed some nights and off others.

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

5. What does the narrator note about his lover as he looks at her in bed when he first wakes?
(a) Her perfect lips.
(b) How good her skin is.
(c) Her long eyelashes.
(d) The sheen of her hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. What still surprises the narrator about his relationship at the start of the story?

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

3. What question does the narrator recall his lover asking him while they were in bed one day?

4. What is the narrator staring at at the start of "Break it Down"?

5. How did the narrator feel when his lover talked "late in the night...faster and faster" (25)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the narrator trying to break down at the start of the story?

2. How do the feelings about the narrator's affair linger after it ends at first?

3. What type of questions does the narrator say he begins to ask himself after "the pictures start to go" (25) of his time with his lover?

4. What surprising question did the narrator's lover ask him in bed one day? How did he respond? What did she think of his response?

5. After including the entire day he and his lover spend together and all the bits that add up, how much does he say he has spent per hour?

6. How does the narrator describe his lover's behavior during the time they spend together before making love?

7. Describe the image of the narrator's love in the coffee shop.

8. How much does the narrator first say the cost of their love making was each hour?

9. Based on what the narrator says he spent in the first few paragraphs, what did he and his lover do during their trip?

10. The narrator describes a moment in bed when his lover talked nonstop late into the night, her mouth close to his ear. How did he feel during that time?

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