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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 is the narrator trying to do at the start of the story?
(a) Do his annual household budget.
(b) Negotiate a better salary.
(c) Break down the cost of an affair.
(d) Write his grocery list.

2. What is one of the "little questions" (25) the narrator began asking himself regarding his time with his lover?
(a) Why did she become so distant over time.
(b) Why did she touch his arm when he spoke sometimes but not others.
(c) Why did she laugh at his jokes sometimes and not others.
(d) Why did she have the light on when he came to bed some nights and off others.

3. How did the narrator respond to the surprising question his lover asked him in bed one day?
(a) He told her to stop asking silly questions.
(b) He said a diet would not hurt.
(c) He said her body was beautiful.
(d) He said she should do whatever she wants.

4. What does the narrator say he becomes afraid of as distance grows between the time spent with his lover and the present?
(a) How weak he is.
(b) That he may never see her again.
(c) That his wife may find out.
(d) Having to see her again.

5. What "keeps happening" (21) between the narrator and his lover while they are together all day, which he says "adds up" (21)?
(a) The touches and smiles.
(b) The deep discussions.
(c) The misunderstandings.
(d) The disagreements.

Short Answer Questions

1. What else did the narrator see in his dreams beyond the dark frame of empty space?

2. After including the time spent with his lover and thinking of her, how much does the narrator estimate their affair costs per hour?

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

4. How did the narrator feel when his lover talked "late in the night...faster and faster" (25)?

5. The narrator describes that after the affair ends, his lover is still inside him like what?

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