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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. To what does the narrator compare the other lovers on the beach?
(a) Crash-test dummies.
(b) Abandoned mannequins.
(c) Fallen soldiers.
(d) Sleeping dolls.

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

3. To what British author does the narrator ironically compare himself near the end of the story?
(a) Rudyard Kipling.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) H. G. Wells.
(d) D. H. Lawrence.

4. 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 complex nature of growing up.
(c) The narrator's general clumsiness.
(d) The comical setting of their first attempt at sex.

5. 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?
(a) A party in the outer suburbs.
(b) The narrator's best friend's house.
(c) Gin's grandmother's house.
(d) The balcony of the Clark Theater.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Gin mentions her "nonna's cottage" (240). Whose cottage is this?

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

5. Who is the author of "We Didn't"?

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