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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 25 - 30 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator think may happen if he kisses his lovers eyelids?
(a) She will wake up and yell at him.
(b) She will punch him.
(c) She will frown in her sleep.
(d) She will wake up and kiss him.

2. What did the narrator see as he walked way from the room for the last time?
(a) He lover blowing him a kiss.
(b) His lover looking at him.
(c) His lover walking away.
(d) The door closing.

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

4. The narrator questions at the end, "How can you go in with...$1000, and...come out with" (30) what?
(a) An old shirt.
(b) A new love.
(c) Nothing but pain.
(d) $0.

5. Why does the narrator decide against kissing his lover's eyelids as he watches her sleep?
(a) She would get mad at him.
(b) She has bad breath.
(c) He is too tired.
(d) He does not want to disturb her.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When the narrator describes watching his lover as she sleeps, what does he say that makes the reader know their time together is temporary?

3. 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?

4. What is the narrator beginning to "lose" (24) in the present regarding his lover?

5. What were the narrator and his lover doing in the "very clean white place" (24) he recalls?

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