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

2. What kind of buildings are on the lovers' lane?
(a) Abandoned factories.
(b) Giant warehouses.
(c) Run-down cottages.
(d) Bars and strip clubs.

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

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

5. In what sense is the drowned woman also still constantly in the narrator's thoughts?
(a) He constantly imagines her there beside Gin.
(b) He sees her as a symbol of his own recklessness.
(c) He begins collecting newspaper articles about drownings.
(d) He imagines that every man he sees could be her killer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the description of the condom springing from the narrator's fingers "like a spring from a clock" (235) meant to convey?

2. What does the narrator compare the dead woman's hair to?

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

4. What does Gin tell the narrator she is afraid of when they are lying on the beach together?

5. What technique is employed in the phrase "and justice for all" (234)?

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