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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 does Gin tell the narrator she is afraid of when they are lying on the beach together?
(a) Getting pregnant.
(b) Her parents finding out.
(c) Someone seeing them having sex.
(d) Him leaving her.

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 constantly imagines her there beside Gin.
(c) He sees her as a symbol of his own recklessness.
(d) He imagines that every man he sees could be her killer.

3. What does the narrator speculate that the lightening across the water might be doing?
(a) Making sea glass on Michigan beaches.
(b) Lighting up the paths of far-away freighters.
(c) Chasing the seagulls out of the sky.
(d) Setting Indiana barns on fire.

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

5. On page 243, there is a reference to "Casanova." Why is this historical figure mentioned?
(a) He was a legendary lover.
(b) He was a poet who wrote about the nobility of faithfulness.
(c) He was a groundbreaking psychiatrist.
(d) He was a priest who argued that premarital sex is not a mortal sin.

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. Which of the following techniques is used in the sentence "How adept we were at fumbling, how perfectly mistimed our timing, how utterly we confused energy with ecstasy" (233)?

3. When the narrator unbuttons the second button on Gin's shirt, what does he see?

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

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

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