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Alasdair Gray, Pillow Talk

Alasdair Gray, Pillow Talk

Read Pillow Talk and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. What is the relationship between the two people in the story?

They are married.

They are engaged and will marry at the end of the month.

They are just friends who drank too much.

They met at a bar and are having a one-night stand.

2. What does the man claim the woman did earlier in the afternoon?

sent an e-mail to him saying that she wants to leave him

spied on him while he spoke on the phone with his mother

cheated on him with his boss

told everyone they know that she wants to get married sooner than he does

3. What is the woman trying to do while they are having this conversation?

eat her dinner

sleep

massage his shoulders

read

4. Why does the woman say she will never leave him?

She’s too old to find anyone better.

She’s worried about his drinking and doesn’t trust him by himself.

She wants to have children.

She loves him too much and life would be misery without him.

5. What does the man do at the end of the story?

leaves the woman’s house and goes back to his wife

makes love to her

cries until he falls asleep

goes into the next room to find his emergency whisky supply