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

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

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

4. 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.

5. What does the narrator say he sometimes feels like when he thinks of his affair?
(a) A prince.
(b) A jerk.
(c) A casanova.
(d) A loser.

Short Answer Questions

1. How often does the narrator figure he thinks of his lover about six weeks after their affair?

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

3. What did the narrator's lover give to him before he left?

4. What did the narrator see as he walked way from the room for the last time?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. The narrator says he would do it again. Why? Was the pleasure greater than the pain?

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

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

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

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

8. What types of things does the narrator say bring back to the memory of his lover just as he thinks he is over the pain?

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

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

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