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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 mood do the diction and details included in the scene where the police leave their cars and enter the water create?
(a) Factual.
(b) Reverent.
(c) Inflammatory.
(d) Frantic.

2. 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) A garden.
(b) Cups.
(c) Water.
(d) Fruit.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator speculate that the lightening across the water might be doing?

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

3. What does the narrator see on the street when he is leaving Gin's building on the night of the beach incident?

4. 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?

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

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