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

2. 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 begins collecting newspaper articles about drownings.
(c) He sees her as a symbol of his own recklessness.
(d) He imagines that every man he sees could be her killer.

3. 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)?
(a) Ironic.
(b) Bemused.
(c) Acerbic.
(d) Fatalistic.

4. To what does the narrator compare Gin's mother's rosary?
(a) A snake.
(b) A bolo tie.
(c) A belt.
(d) A noose.

5. What does Gin mean when she tells the narrator that she knows the dead woman?
(a) The woman was from her neighborhood.
(b) The woman was not much older than Gin.
(c) The woman is a distant relative of Gin's.
(d) She dreams about the woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who asks the narrator and Gin questions as they try to leave the beach?

2. What technique is used in the phrase "the forlorn, deflated Trojan" (238)?

3. What technique is used in the sentence "On my fingers your slick scent mixed with the coconut musk of the suntan lotion we’d repeatedly smeared over each other's bodies" (234) ?

4. What is the detail about how long the narrator has been carrying a condom in his pocket meant to convey?

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

(see the answer key)

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