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

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

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

4. 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?
(a) She needs to get her blanket back from him.
(b) She wants to know if he needs an umbrella.
(c) She want to know if he is going to tell anyone what happened.
(d) She wants to tell him that she loves him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator say that Lake Michigan "became" the Pacific Ocean (235)?

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

3. To what does the narrator compare Gin's mother's rosary?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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