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

2. What detail on page 233 reveals that some time has passed since the events of the story took place?
(a) The characters visiting "Oak Street Beach."
(b) The "lilac bushes in Marquette Park."
(c) The "now defunct Clark Theater."
(d) Gin saying that she feels "like Doris Day" is watching her.

3. In the light from the squad cars and flashlights, what does the narrator see on the beach as the other couples are running away?
(a) Garbage.
(b) Dead fish.
(c) A dead body.
(d) The condom.

4. What is the rhetorical purpose of the anaphora in the narrator's description of the Gold Coast residents having sex?
(a) It creates increasing tension as the list continues.
(b) It highlights the comic understatement of the narrator's response to the situation.
(c) It stresses the similarities between the narrator and these strangers.
(d) It forms an ironic contrast with the story's opening.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. While he is on the beach, what does the narrator imagine the couples in the high-rises around them are wearing?

2. Which detail of the narrator's description of their kisses indicates the passage of time?

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

4. Who asks the narrator and Gin questions as they try to leave the beach?

5. 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) ?

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