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

2. In what sense is the drowned woman also still constantly in the narrator's thoughts?
(a) He constantly imagines her there beside Gin.
(b) He imagines that every man he sees could be her killer.
(c) He begins collecting newspaper articles about drownings.
(d) He sees her as a symbol of his own recklessness.

3. From the context of page 234, what "apocalypse" is the allusion to the Four Horsemen referring to?
(a) Water scarcity.
(b) Global pandemic.
(c) Nuclear annihilation.
(d) Climate change.

4. What detail on page 233 reveals that some time has passed since the events of the story took place?
(a) The characters visiting "Oak Street Beach."
(b) The "now defunct Clark Theater."
(c) Gin saying that she feels "like Doris Day" is watching her.
(d) The "lilac bushes in Marquette Park."

5. What technique is used in the phrase "the forlorn, deflated Trojan" (238)?
(a) Personification.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Simile.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the narrator drops Gin off at her building on the night of the incident at the beach, why does she run back outside and call after him?

2. What technique is used in the sentence "On my fingers your slick scent mixed with the coconut musk of the suntan lotion we’d repeatedly smeared over each other's bodies" (234) ?

3. What is the first priority of the ambulance attendant when he arrives?

4. Why does Gin tell the narrator "Stop" when they are just about to have sex (236)?

5. 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?

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