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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 repetition technique is used in the story's opening paragraph?
(a) Epistrophe.
(b) Antanaclasis.
(c) Epizeuxis.
(d) Anaphora.

2. What kind of blanket does Gin bring to the beach?
(a) Her grandmother's quilt.
(b) An army blanket.
(c) A picnic blanket.
(d) A Navajo blanket.

3. What does Gin mean when she tells the narrator that she knows the dead woman?
(a) The woman was from her neighborhood.
(b) The woman was not much older than Gin.
(c) She dreams about the woman.
(d) The woman is a distant relative of Gin's.

4. In Gin's dream about the beach, why has the narrator left her alone?
(a) He has gone to get some mustard.
(b) He is trying to help find a lost child.
(c) After they have sex, he loses interest in her.
(d) They have had a big fight.

5. Who asks the narrator and Gin questions as they try to leave the beach?
(a) The police officer with a beer belly.
(b) The police officer with the crew cut.
(c) The ambulance attendant.
(d) Curious onlookers.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the story's opening, what details are related to the characters' social circumstances?

2. 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)?

3. 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?

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

5. 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?

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