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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 does the narrator say is all that is left of the relationship after the pictures and questions go away?
(a) A vast emptiness.
(b) A large heavy pain.
(c) An ocean of regret.
(d) A huge open space.

2. What did the narrator's lover give to him before he left?
(a) Cab fare.
(b) Her silk robe.
(c) A bottle of champagne.
(d) A green and blue shirt.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What "comes after [the affair] and lasts longer" (30), according to the narrator?

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

3. What does the narrator do to try to ease some of the feelings leftover from the affair?

4. What sounds does the narrator say may remind him of his lover?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What types of things does the narrator say bring back to the memory of his lover just as he thinks he is over the pain?

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

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

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

7. What does the narrator see as he walks away from his lover at the end of their trip?

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

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

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

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