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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 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.

2. What were the narrator and his lover doing when he first told her he loved her?
(a) Having a drink.
(b) Packing their things to go home.
(c) Making love.
(d) Taking a evening stroll.

3. What was the narrator unable to tell his lover before he told her he loved her?
(a) He hoped it did not scare her away.
(b) She did not have to feel it was a burden.
(c) He really hoped she felt the same.
(d) He had never loved anyone before her.

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

5. Why does the narrator say he felt he had to tell his lover that he loved her?
(a) He wanted to scare her away.
(b) He was drunk.
(c) It was bursting inside him.
(d) He thought it would make her stay.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was significant about the night the narrator told his lover that he loved her?

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

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

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

5. How does the narrator describe the way his lover responded when he told her he loved her?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does the narrator see as he walks away from his lover at the end of their trip?

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

9. 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?

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

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