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

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

3. 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 dumb.
(b) She asked if he thought she was pretty or no.
(c) She asked if he thought she should dye her hair.
(d) She asked if he thought she was fat.

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

5. What does the narrator say he becomes afraid of as distance grows between the time spent with his lover and the present?
(a) That he may never see her again.
(b) That his wife may find out.
(c) Having to see her again.
(d) How weak he is.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color are the narrator's lover's eyes?

2. What "keeps happening" (21) between the narrator and his lover while they are together all day, which he says "adds up" (21)?

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

4. What is the "very clean white place" (24) the narrator recalls being with his lover?

5. Why does the narrator decide against kissing his lover's eyelids as he watches her sleep?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. What are the feelings the narrator experiences when he starts to lose the feeling of being with his lover?

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

6. 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?

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

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

9. Why does the narrator choose not to kiss his lover's eyelids as he wants to while he watches her sleep?

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

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