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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 characters' social circumstances?
(a) Grass, leaves, and snow.
(b) Light and darkness.
(c) Gin's bed and their parents' cars.
(d) The condition of the Rambler and the rosary.
2. 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) A condom.
(c) Gin's blanket.
(d) His underwear.
3. What detail on page 233 reveals that some time has passed since the events of the story took place?
(a) Gin saying that she feels "like Doris Day" is watching her.
(b) The characters visiting "Oak Street Beach."
(c) The "lilac bushes in Marquette Park."
(d) The "now defunct Clark Theater."
4. In the story's opening, what details are related to the story's epigraph?
(a) Grass, leaves, and snow.
(b) Light and darkness.
(c) Gin's bed and their parents' cars.
(d) The condition of the Rambler and the rosary.
5. On page 243, there is a reference to "Casanova." Why is this historical figure mentioned?
(a) He was a legendary lover.
(b) He was a poet who wrote about the nobility of faithfulness.
(c) He was a groundbreaking psychiatrist.
(d) He was a priest who argued that premarital sex is not a mortal sin.
Short Answer Questions
1. What mood do the diction and details included in the scene where the police leave their cars and enter the water create?
2. What is the narrator's tone when he recalls, "I was trying to calm your terror with reassuring phrases such as 'Holy shit! I don’t fucking believe this!'” (236)?
3. In Gin's dream about the beach, why has the narrator left her alone?
4. Why does the narrator say that Lake Michigan "became" the Pacific Ocean (235)?
5. In what sense is the drowned woman also still constantly in the narrator's thoughts?
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