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

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

3. Why was the narrator surprised by the question his lover asked him in bed?
(a) She promised she would not ask him that again.
(b) He had literally just answered that question.
(c) He did not think she worried about herself like that.
(d) He had just told her how beautiful she was.

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

5. What were the narrator and his lover doing in the "very clean white place" (24) he recalls?
(a) Getting massages.
(b) Making love.
(c) Having breakfast.
(d) Drinking martinis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What "keeps happening" (21) between the narrator and his lover while they are together all day, which he says "adds up" (21)?

2. What question does the narrator recall his lover asking him while they were in bed one day?

3. How many hours a day does the narrator estimate he spends either with his lover or thinking of her during their time together?

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

5. What word is used to describe the way the narrator's lover responded to his answer to the question she asked him in bed?

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