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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 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?
(a) To depict Gin's youth and vulnerability.
(b) To convey the narrator's ambiguous sexual orientation.
(c) To imply that the narrator is not really attracted to Gin.
(d) To create a mood of disgust.

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

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) A garden.
(b) Fruit.
(c) Cups.
(d) Water.

4. Why does the narrator say that Lake Michigan "became" the Pacific Ocean (235)?
(a) Gin has always imagined losing her virginity on a California beach.
(b) He is experiencing a feeling of being lost in space and time.
(c) He is referencing the film From Here to Eternity.
(d) The sound of the waves is exaggerated by his excitement.

5. From the context of page 234, what "apocalypse" is the allusion to the Four Horsemen referring to?
(a) Nuclear annihilation.
(b) Climate change.
(c) Water scarcity.
(d) Global pandemic.

Short Answer Questions

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

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. Gin mentions her "nonna's cottage" (240). Whose cottage is this?

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

5. In the story's opening, what details are related to the story's epigraph?

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