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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. 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) $6 an hour.
(b) $3 an hour.
(c) $60 an hour.
(d) $24 an hour.

2. What sounds does the narrator say may remind him of his lover?
(a) A woman laughing.
(b) A child singing.
(c) A cat or baby crying.
(d) A snake hissing.

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

4. What does the narrator worry he did to his lover by telling her he loved her?
(a) Made her dislike him.
(b) Trapped her into saying it back.
(c) Scared her away.
(d) Lied to her.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator think may have been the only bad time with his lover?

2. Why does the narrator think he could not let himself fall completely in love with his lover?

3. What does the narrator say is all that is left of the relationship after the pictures and questions go away?

4. Why does the narrator say he felt he had to tell his lover that he loved her?

5. How does the narrator describe how his impending pain looks in an open box in a window?

Short Essay Questions

1. The narrator says sometimes he feels like a prince or a king. What contrasting emotion does he feel?

2. In the final paragraph, what does the narrator question regarding his affair?

3. After adding up the time spent thinking of his lover after the affair has ended, how much does the narrator calculate he has spent?

4. The narrator says he may have only been half falling in love. Why?

5. What does the narrator do to try to numb the "large heavy pain" (26) he is left with once the pictures fade?

6. How does the narrator describe what happens when you look at the pain as if "in an open box, in a window somewhere" (29)?

7. How long after the affair does the narrator think his time thinking of her is reduced to about and hour or two a day?

8. What did the narrator's lover give him before he left? Describe it.

9. What was the second bad time the narrator says he and his lover had?

10. How does the narrator say he was beginning to feel when he was getting ready to say goodbye?

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