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

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

3. 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?
(a) Cups.
(b) Water.
(c) Fruit.
(d) A garden.

4. On the fall night when the narrator realizes that his relationship with Gin is over, what are they arguing about?
(a) A series of Elvis movies they saw at a drive-in.
(b) Whether they will ever have sex.
(c) A female poet who has committed suicide.
(d) The drowned woman.

5. What does the narrator speculate that the lightening across the water might be doing?
(a) Chasing the seagulls out of the sky.
(b) Lighting up the paths of far-away freighters.
(c) Making sea glass on Michigan beaches.
(d) Setting Indiana barns on fire.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Gin's dream about the beach, why has the narrator left her alone?

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

3. 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)?

4. In the story's opening, what details are related to the characters' youth?

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

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