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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. What is the narrator's tone when he recalls, "I was trying to calm your terror with reassuring phrases such as 'Holy shit! I don’t fucking believe this!'” (236)?
(a) Acerbic.
(b) Ironic.
(c) Bemused.
(d) Fatalistic.

2. To what does the narrator compare the other lovers on the beach?
(a) Sleeping dolls.
(b) Crash-test dummies.
(c) Abandoned mannequins.
(d) Fallen soldiers.

3. What happens after the night on the beach, when the narrator senses Gin growing distant while they are kissing?
(a) He tells her she is crazy.
(b) He kisses her harder.
(c) He pretends to feel the same way she does.
(d) He tries to tell her jokes to cheer her up.

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

5. To what does the narrator compare Gin's mother's rosary?
(a) A belt.
(b) A bolo tie.
(c) A noose.
(d) A snake.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of buildings are on the lovers' lane?

2. What is the rhetorical purpose of including the detail "the skinny rails of your legs" (235) when the narrator is talking about taking off Gin's bikini bottom?

3. Why does the narrator say that Lake Michigan "became" the Pacific Ocean (235)?

4. Which detail of the narrator's description of their kisses indicates the passage of time?

5. How has the narrator and Gin's relationship changed by the end of the summer?

(see the answer key)

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