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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. Why does Gin tell the narrator "Stop" when they are just about to have sex (236)?
(a) She has changed her mind about having sex.
(b) She sees something in the water.
(c) She sees the police lights.
(d) The narrator's condom has fallen off.

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) Light and darkness.
(c) Gin's bed and their parents' cars.
(d) Grass, leaves, and snow.

3. Gin mentions her "nonna's cottage" (240). Whose cottage is this?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her aunt.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her grandmother.

4. What happens after the night on the beach, when the narrator senses Gin growing distant while they are kissing?
(a) He tells her she is crazy.
(b) He tries to tell her jokes to cheer her up.
(c) He pretends to feel the same way she does.
(d) He kisses her harder.

5. 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 pressure of time passing.
(b) The comical setting of their first attempt at sex.
(c) The complex nature of growing up.
(d) The narrator's general clumsiness.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. While he is on the beach, what does the narrator imagine the couples in the high-rises around them are wearing?

3. Which detail of the narrator's description of their kisses indicates the passage of time?

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

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

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