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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 repetition technique is used in the story's opening paragraph?
(a) Epizeuxis.
(b) Antanaclasis.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Epistrophe.

2. 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 imagines that every man he sees could be her killer.
(d) He constantly imagines her there beside Gin.

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

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

5. In Gin's dream about the beach, why has the narrator left her alone?
(a) He is trying to help find a lost child.
(b) They have had a big fight.
(c) After they have sex, he loses interest in her.
(d) He has gone to get some mustard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is employed in the phrase "How adept we were at fumbling" (233)?

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

3. 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?

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?

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

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