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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 is the first priority of the ambulance attendant when he arrives?
(a) To see if the baby is also deceased.
(b) To demand that the woman be covered up.
(c) To ask whether Gin and the narrator know the woman's name.
(d) To try to give the woman CPR.

2. In the story's opening, what details are related to the passage of time?
(a) Grass, leaves, and snow.
(b) Gin's bed and their parents' cars.
(c) Light and darkness.
(d) The condition of the Rambler and the rosary.

3. 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?
(a) Tell the narrator and Gin to move back.
(b) Remove their hats and bow their heads.
(c) Look at Gin uncomfortably.
(d) Cross themselves and say a prayer.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What characteristic of the area around the beach is conveyed with its nickname, the "Gold Coast"?

3. 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) ?

4. From the context of page 234, what "apocalypse" is the allusion to the Four Horsemen referring to?

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?

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