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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "We Didn't".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the narrator unbuttons the second button on Gin's shirt, what does he see?
(a) A bruise.
(b) Her camisole.
(c) A scar.
(d) Her cross.

2. When the police examine the woman's body in the light of their flashlights, what does her nakedness and obvious pregnancy cause them to do?
(a) Look at Gin uncomfortably.
(b) Cross themselves and say a prayer.
(c) Remove their hats and bow their heads.
(d) Tell the narrator and Gin to move back.

3. Which of the following techniques is used in the sentence "How adept we were at fumbling, how perfectly mistimed our timing, how utterly we confused energy with ecstasy" (233)?
(a) Asyndeton.
(b) Synecdoche.
(c) Antithesis.
(d) Polysyndeton.

4. What does the narrator speculate that the lightening across the water might be doing?
(a) Chasing the seagulls out of the sky.
(b) Lighting up the paths of far-away freighters.
(c) Making sea glass on Michigan beaches.
(d) Setting Indiana barns on fire.

5. In Gin's dream about the beach, why has the narrator left her alone?
(a) After they have sex, he loses interest in her.
(b) He has gone to get some mustard.
(c) He is trying to help find a lost child.
(d) They have had a big fight.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gin mean when she tells the narrator that she knows the dead woman?

2. What characteristic of the area around the beach is conveyed with its nickname, the "Gold Coast"?

3. On page 243, there is a reference to "Casanova." Why is this historical figure mentioned?

4. What does the narrator compare the dead woman's hair to?

5. Who asks the narrator and Gin questions as they try to leave the beach?

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