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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 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?
(a) To convey the narrator's ambiguous sexual orientation.
(b) To imply that the narrator is not really attracted to Gin.
(c) To create a mood of disgust.
(d) To depict Gin's youth and vulnerability.

2. What does the narrator compare the dead woman's hair to?
(a) A horse's tail.
(b) A wig.
(c) Seaweed.
(d) Leaves.

3. Gin mentions her "nonna's cottage" (240). Whose cottage is this?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Her aunt.

4. What does Gin tell the narrator she is afraid of when they are lying on the beach together?
(a) Him leaving her.
(b) Her parents finding out.
(c) Getting pregnant.
(d) Someone seeing them having sex.

5. What technique is employed in the phrase "How adept we were at fumbling" (233)?
(a) Verbal irony.
(b) Oxymoron.
(c) Juxtaposition.
(d) Paradox.

Short Answer Questions

1. What detail on page 233 reveals that some time has passed since the events of the story took place?

2. What is the description of the condom springing from the narrator's fingers "like a spring from a clock" (235) meant to convey?

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

4. 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?

5. On the night when he realizes that their relationship is over, what does the narrator realize he really wants from Gin?

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