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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 20 -25 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What colors does the narrator use to describe his lover's hair when he recalls her looking up at him from the newspaper she was reading?
(a) Dark brown, auburn, white.
(b) Black, plum, dark brown.
(c) Golden, gray, red.
(d) Light brown, red, gold.

2. What does the narrator know will happen each day he spends with his lover?
(a) They will end up in bed together.
(b) She will stop talking to him.
(c) They will have a fancy dinner.
(d) They will have an argument.

3. What color are the narrator's lover's eyes?
(a) Green.
(b) Hazel.
(c) Brown.
(d) Blue.

4. What is the narrator beginning to "lose" (24) in the present regarding his lover?
(a) His understanding of what he saw in her.
(b) His love for her.
(c) HIs desire to see her again.
(d) The feeling of being with her.

5. What "old" (22) thing does the narrator say he cannot look at without still feeling what he feels his lover?
(a) Street or painting.
(b) Car or pair of pants.
(c) Restaurant or bookstore.
(d) Tree or rosebush.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the narrator's lover's behavior described at the start of the story?

2. How much does the narrator calculate his love making cost?

3. As time passes, the narrator says thoughts of his lover are more in his ______ than his ______?

4. What is the narrator staring at at the start of "Break it Down"?

5. What still surprises the narrator about his relationship at the start of the story?

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