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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 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.

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

3. As the narrator was leaving they stood close together looking at what?
(a) The door.
(b) The gift she had just given him.
(c) The bed.
(d) A piece of paper she held in her hand.

4. What does the narrator do to try to numb the feelings after his affair?
(a) Write.
(b) Read.
(c) Paint.
(d) Sing.

5. What does the narrator do to try to ease some of the feelings leftover from the affair?
(a) Take a class.
(b) Visit family.
(c) Go to public places to be around people.
(d) Go out with friends.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator say he sometimes feels like when he thinks of his affair?

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

5. What sounds does the narrator say may remind him of his lover?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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