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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 does Gin believe is true about the dead woman on the beach?
(a) She was sent by God.
(b) Her death was accidental.
(c) Gin and the narrator could have saved her.
(d) She was an omen.

2. What is the title of the poem used as an epigraph for this story?
(a) "We Did It."
(b) "The Mirror."
(c) "In Darkness and in Light."
(d) "Water."

3. In the story's opening, what details are related to the characters' youth?
(a) Gin's bed and their parents' cars.
(b) Light and darkness.
(c) The condition of the Rambler and the rosary.
(d) Grass, leaves, and snow.

4. Why does the narrator say that Lake Michigan "became" the Pacific Ocean (235)?
(a) He is experiencing a feeling of being lost in space and time.
(b) He is referencing the film From Here to Eternity.
(c) The sound of the waves is exaggerated by his excitement.
(d) Gin has always imagined losing her virginity on a California beach.

5. What repetition technique is used in the story's opening paragraph?
(a) Anaphora.
(b) Epistrophe.
(c) Epizeuxis.
(d) Antanaclasis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the rhetorical purpose of the anaphora in the narrator's description of the Gold Coast residents having sex?

2. What does the narrator see on the street when he is leaving Gin's building on the night of the beach incident?

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

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

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

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