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

3. What does the narrator see on the street when he is leaving Gin's building on the night of the beach incident?
(a) Beach sand.
(b) His underwear.
(c) A condom.
(d) Gin's blanket.

4. What is the detail about how long the narrator has been carrying a condom in his pocket meant to convey?
(a) His eagerness to have sex with Gin.
(b) His relative experience compared to Gin.
(c) His blindness to Gin's feelings.
(d) His responsible attitude.

5. What technique is used in the phrase "the forlorn, deflated Trojan" (238)?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Personification.
(d) Simile.

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

3. In the story's opening, what details are related to the characters' youth?

4. In the light from the squad cars and flashlights, what does the narrator see on the beach as the other couples are running away?

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

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