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

2. 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 sees her as a symbol of his own recklessness.
(c) He constantly imagines her there beside Gin.
(d) He begins collecting newspaper articles about drownings.

3. 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) A garden.
(d) Cups.

4. What mood do the diction and details included in the scene where the police leave their cars and enter the water create?
(a) Inflammatory.
(b) Factual.
(c) Frantic.
(d) Reverent.

5. What is the title of the poem used as an epigraph for this story?
(a) "We Did It."
(b) "In Darkness and in Light."
(c) "Water."
(d) "The Mirror."

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Gin tell the narrator "Stop" when they are just about to have sex (236)?

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

3. To what does the narrator compare the other lovers on the beach?

4. On the fall night when the narrator realizes that his relationship with Gin is over, what are they arguing about?

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

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