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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. As the narrator was leaving they stood close together looking at what?
(a) The bed.
(b) The door.
(c) A piece of paper she held in her hand.
(d) The gift she had just given him.

2. The narrator describes staring at the impending pain from an affair in a window and saying what?
(a) "Nothing, just walking away."
(b) "Can I return it if I don't like it."
(c) "I'll take it."
(d) "I'll borrow it for just a moment."

3. The narrator questions at the end, "How can you go in with...$1000, and...come out with" (30) what?
(a) $0.
(b) An old shirt.
(c) A new love.
(d) Nothing but pain.

4. What does the narrator worry he did to his lover by telling her he loved her?
(a) Scared her away.
(b) Made her dislike him.
(c) Lied to her.
(d) Trapped her into saying it back.

5. What did the narrator see as he walked way from the room for the last time?
(a) The door closing.
(b) His lover walking away.
(c) His lover looking at him.
(d) He lover blowing him a kiss.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the narrator unable to tell his lover before he told her he loved her?

2. How does the narrator describe the way his lover responded when he told her he loved her?

3. If the narrator calculates the time spent thinking of his lover up to six weeks after the affair, how much does he figure he has spent?

4. Why does the narrator think he could not let himself fall completely in love with his lover?

5. What does the narrator do to try to numb the feelings after his affair?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does the narrator do to try to numb the "large heavy pain" (26) he is left with once the pictures fade?

8. How long after the affair does the narrator think his time thinking of her is reduced to about and hour or two a day?

9. The narrator says he would do it again. Why? Was the pleasure greater than the pain?

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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