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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 does the narrator note about his lover as he looks at her in bed when he first wakes?
(a) The sheen of her hair.
(b) Her perfect lips.
(c) How good her skin is.
(d) Her long eyelashes.

2. What else did the narrator see in his dreams beyond the dark frame of empty space?
(a) A child.
(b) A bed.
(c) A house.
(d) A garden.

3. What does the narrator say he kept dreaming about while with his lover?
(a) A building.
(b) A doctor's office.
(c) A car.
(d) His lover.

4. The narrator describes that after watching his lover sleep he finally falls asleep "lightly" (23). Why?
(a) He worries she might run out on him.
(b) He wants to wake as soon as she does.
(c) He wants to hang on to the moment.
(d) He wants to protect her from danger.

5. How did the narrator feel when his lover talked "late in the night...faster and faster" (25)?
(a) He felt glad their trip was coming to an end.
(b) He liked it but was too tired to understand what she was talking about.
(c) He loved it and felt energized by it.
(d) He was annoyed because he wanted to sleep.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator know will happen each day he spends with his lover?

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

5. What color are the narrator's lover's eyes?

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