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

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

3. Gin mentions her "nonna's cottage" (240). Whose cottage is this?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Her aunt.

4. Why does Gin tell the narrator "Stop" when they are just about to have sex (236)?
(a) She sees the police lights.
(b) She sees something in the water.
(c) The narrator's condom has fallen off.
(d) She has changed her mind about having sex.

5. When the narrator unbuttons the second button on Gin's shirt, what does he see?
(a) Her cross.
(b) Her camisole.
(c) A scar.
(d) A bruise.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the title of the poem used as an epigraph for this story?

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

4. 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)?

5. What is the first priority of the ambulance attendant when he arrives?

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