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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. 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) Remove their hats and bow their heads.
(d) Tell the narrator and Gin to move back.

2. What is the rhetorical purpose of the anaphora in the narrator's description of the Gold Coast residents having sex?
(a) It creates increasing tension as the list continues.
(b) It forms an ironic contrast with the story's opening.
(c) It highlights the comic understatement of the narrator's response to the situation.
(d) It stresses the similarities between the narrator and these strangers.

3. On page 243, there is a reference to "Casanova." Why is this historical figure mentioned?
(a) He was a groundbreaking psychiatrist.
(b) He was a legendary lover.
(c) He was a priest who argued that premarital sex is not a mortal sin.
(d) He was a poet who wrote about the nobility of faithfulness.

4. In Gin's dream about the beach, why has the narrator left her alone?
(a) After they have sex, he loses interest in her.
(b) He has gone to get some mustard.
(c) They have had a big fight.
(d) He is trying to help find a lost child.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gin believe is true about the dead woman on the beach?

2. In the story's opening, what details are related to the characters' youth?

3. While he is on the beach, what does the narrator imagine the couples in the high-rises around them are wearing?

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

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