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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. In the light from the squad cars and flashlights, what does the narrator see on the beach as the other couples are running away?
(a) The condom.
(b) Garbage.
(c) Dead fish.
(d) A dead body.

2. To what does the narrator compare Gin's mother's rosary?
(a) A bolo tie.
(b) A noose.
(c) A belt.
(d) A snake.

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

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

5. Which detail of the narrator's description of their kisses indicates the passage of time?
(a) The lip gloss.
(b) The wind.
(c) The Cokes.
(d) The suntan lotion.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What technique is used in the phrase "the forlorn, deflated Trojan" (238)?

3. Which of the following is one of the places where the narrator and Gin go to try to resume their attempts at intimacy after the incident at the beach?

4. What detail on page 233 reveals that some time has passed since the events of the story took place?

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

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