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

2. In the light from the squad cars and flashlights, what does the narrator see on the beach as the other couples are running away?
(a) A dead body.
(b) Dead fish.
(c) The condom.
(d) Garbage.

3. On the night when he realizes that their relationship is over, what does the narrator realize he really wants from Gin?
(a) For her to like him again.
(b) For her to apologize to him.
(c) For her to stay away from him.
(d) For her to get over the incident on the beach.

4. In the story's opening, what details are related to the passage of time?
(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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gin tell the narrator she is afraid of when they are lying on the beach together?

2. What happens after the night on the beach, when the narrator senses Gin growing distant while they are kissing?

3. What repetition technique is used in the story's opening paragraph?

4. 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?

5. In what sense is the drowned woman also still constantly in the narrator's thoughts?

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