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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 what sense is the drowned woman also still constantly in the narrator's thoughts?
(a) He sees her as a symbol of his own recklessness.
(b) He begins collecting newspaper articles about drownings.
(c) He constantly imagines her there beside Gin.
(d) He imagines that every man he sees could be her killer.

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

3. What is the title of the poem used as an epigraph for this story?
(a) "In Darkness and in Light."
(b) "The Mirror."
(c) "Water."
(d) "We Did It."

4. What is the rhetorical purpose of the anaphora in the narrator's description of the Gold Coast residents having sex?
(a) It highlights the comic understatement of the narrator's response to the situation.
(b) It forms an ironic contrast with the story's opening.
(c) It creates increasing tension as the list continues.
(d) It stresses the similarities between the narrator and these strangers.

5. How has the narrator and Gin's relationship changed by the end of the summer?
(a) Gin cries whenever the narrator tries to kiss her.
(b) They argue constantly about trivial things.
(c) The narrator has begun to notice other girls in his neighborhood.
(d) Gin is not comfortable being alone with the narrator.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gin believe is true about the dead woman on the beach?

2. What does Gin mean when she tells the narrator that she knows the dead woman?

3. What happens after the night on the beach, when the narrator senses Gin growing distant while they are kissing?

4. What does the narrator compare the dead woman's hair to?

5. Who asks the narrator and Gin questions as they try to leave the beach?

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