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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 first priority of the ambulance attendant when he arrives?
(a) To see if the baby is also deceased.
(b) To ask whether Gin and the narrator know the woman's name.
(c) To try to give the woman CPR.
(d) To demand that the woman be covered up.

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

3. What is the description of the condom springing from the narrator's fingers "like a spring from a clock" (235) meant to convey?
(a) The narrator's general clumsiness.
(b) The comical setting of their first attempt at sex.
(c) The complex nature of growing up.
(d) The pressure of time passing.

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

5. On page 234, which of the following terms does the narrator use to describe the sunset?
(a) "Rose rapture."
(b) "Pink peace."
(c) "Panorama pink."
(d) "Restless rose."

Short Answer Questions

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

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?

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

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. 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?

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