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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 does the narrator describe how his impending pain looks in an open box in a window?
(a) Sharp and pointy like a cactus.
(b) Warm and fuzzy like a puppy.
(c) Soft and malleable like clay.
(d) Hard and cold like metal.

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

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

4. 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) $3 an hour.
(b) $6 an hour.
(c) $60 an hour.
(d) $24 an hour.

5. How does the narrator describe the way his lover responded when he told her he loved her?
(a) A little flat.
(b) With compassion.
(c) Enthusiastically.
(d) A little harsh.

Short Answer Questions

1. As the narrator was leaving they stood close together looking at what?

2. What do the "little questions" (26) the narrator begins to ask himself begin to do to him, as described in the text?

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

4. How did the narrator's lover respond when he told her he loved her?

5. What was the narrator unable to tell his lover before he told her he loved her?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In what way is the pain from the affair worse than the pleasure?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Describe the first bad time the speaker recalls having with his lover.

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