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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) The condition of the Rambler and the rosary.
(b) Light and darkness.
(c) Gin's bed and their parents' cars.
(d) Grass, leaves, and snow.

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

3. 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 complex nature of growing up.
(d) The comical setting of their first attempt at sex.

4. 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) Gin's blanket.
(c) His underwear.
(d) A condom.

5. What does Gin believe is true about the dead woman on the beach?
(a) Gin and the narrator could have saved her.
(b) She was an omen.
(c) Her death was accidental.
(d) She was sent by God.

Short Answer Questions

1. How has the narrator and Gin's relationship changed by the end of the summer?

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

3. What is the rhetorical purpose of including the detail "the skinny rails of your legs" (235) when the narrator is talking about taking off Gin's bikini bottom?

4. What detail on page 233 reveals that some time has passed since the events of the story took place?

5. Which of the following techniques is used in the sentence "How adept we were at fumbling, how perfectly mistimed our timing, how utterly we confused energy with ecstasy" (233)?

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