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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. 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.

2. What does the narrator see on the street when he is leaving Gin's building on the night of the beach incident?
(a) His underwear.
(b) Beach sand.
(c) A condom.
(d) Gin's blanket.

3. In the simile that the narrator uses when he describes holding Gin's breasts in his hands on page 234, to what does he compare her breasts?
(a) Cups.
(b) Fruit.
(c) Water.
(d) A garden.

4. What technique is evident in the phrase "feverish plucking and twanging, tom-toms, congas, and gongs" (235)?
(a) Euphony.
(b) Cacophony.
(c) Double entendre.
(d) Hyperbaton.

5. On the fall night when the narrator realizes that his relationship with Gin is over, what are they arguing about?
(a) A female poet who has committed suicide.
(b) Whether they will ever have sex.
(c) A series of Elvis movies they saw at a drive-in.
(d) The drowned woman.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Gin's dream about the beach, why has the narrator left her alone?

3. What kind of blanket does Gin bring to the beach?

4. 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)?

5. 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?

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