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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. 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 thought it would make her stay.
(c) He was drunk.
(d) It was bursting inside him.

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

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 she told him she was leaving him.
(c) When he told her he loved her.
(d) When she asked if she was fat.

4. What does the narrator cite as the other "bad time" (28) he and his lover had?
(a) The time they ran into her boyfriend.
(b) The time he got too drunk.
(c) The time his wife called him.
(d) The time he had to leave.

5. What did the narrator's lover give to him before he left?
(a) A bottle of champagne.
(b) A green and blue shirt.
(c) Cab fare.
(d) Her silk robe.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator do to try to numb the feelings after his affair?

3. The narrator questions at the end, "How can you go in with...$1000, and...come out with" (30) what?

4. The narrator describes staring at the impending pain from an affair in a window and saying what?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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