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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the "little questions" (26) the narrator begins to ask himself begin to do to him, as described in the text?
(a) Eat away at him.
(b) Confuse him.
(c) Make him see the affair for what it was.
(d) Nag at him.

2. What does the narrator think may have been the only bad time with his lover?
(a) When she told him she was leaving him.
(b) When he was too tired to make love.
(c) When she asked if she was fat.
(d) When he told her he loved her.

3. What does the narrator say he sometimes feels like when he thinks of his affair?
(a) A casanova.
(b) A loser.
(c) A jerk.
(d) A prince.

4. How does the narrator describe the way his lover responded when he told her he loved her?
(a) A little harsh.
(b) Enthusiastically.
(c) With compassion.
(d) A little flat.

5. Why does the narrator think he could not let himself fall completely in love with his lover?
(a) He was not over his last relationship.
(b) He knew the affair was going to be so short.
(c) He was afraid of commitment.
(d) He did not fully trust her.

Short Answer Questions

1. As the narrator was leaving they stood close together looking at what?

2. Why does the narrator say he felt he had to tell his lover that he loved her?

3. What did the narrator's lover give to him before he left?

4. How was the narrator beginning to feel the day he had to leave?

5. What does the narrator cite as the other "bad time" (28) he and his lover had?

Short Essay Questions

1. The narrator says he may have only been half falling in love. Why?

2. The narrator says sometimes he feels like a prince or a king. What contrasting emotion does he feel?

3. In what way is the pain from the affair worse than the pleasure?

4. In the final paragraph, what does the narrator question regarding his affair?

5. After adding up the time spent thinking of his lover after the affair has ended, how much does the narrator calculate he has spent?

6. What was the second bad time the narrator says he and his lover had?

7. What did the narrator's lover give him before he left? Describe it.

8. Describe the first bad time the speaker recalls having with his lover.

9. How does the narrator say he was beginning to feel when he was getting ready to say goodbye?

10. How does the narrator describe what happens when you look at the pain as if "in an open box, in a window somewhere" (29)?

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