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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 mean when she tells the narrator that she knows the dead woman?
(a) The woman is a distant relative of Gin's.
(b) The woman was not much older than Gin.
(c) The woman was from her neighborhood.
(d) She dreams about the woman.

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

3. What is the tone of the narrator's description of people in Gold Coast apartments having sex?
(a) Derisive.
(b) Effusive.
(c) Ghoulish.
(d) Wry.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the police examine the woman's body in the light of their flashlights, what does her nakedness and obvious pregnancy cause them to do?

2. What technique is used in the sentence "On my fingers your slick scent mixed with the coconut musk of the suntan lotion we’d repeatedly smeared over each other's bodies" (234) ?

3. What technique is used in the phrase "the forlorn, deflated Trojan" (238)?

4. What is the detail about how long the narrator has been carrying a condom in his pocket meant to convey?

5. To what does the narrator compare Gin's mother's rosary?

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