View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "We Didn't".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator speculate that the lightening across the water might be doing?
(a) Setting Indiana barns on fire.
(b) Chasing the seagulls out of the sky.
(c) Lighting up the paths of far-away freighters.
(d) Making sea glass on Michigan beaches.

4. What technique is employed in the phrase "How adept we were at fumbling" (233)?
(a) Oxymoron.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Verbal irony.
(d) Juxtaposition.

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. In the simile that the narrator uses when he describes holding Gin's breasts in his hands on page 234, to what does he compare her breasts?

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

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

4. How has the narrator and Gin's relationship changed by the end of the summer?

5. What is the rhetorical purpose of the anaphora in the narrator's description of the Gold Coast residents having sex?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 360 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample