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

2. What detail on page 233 reveals that some time has passed since the events of the story took place?
(a) The characters visiting "Oak Street Beach."
(b) The "lilac bushes in Marquette Park."
(c) Gin saying that she feels "like Doris Day" is watching her.
(d) The "now defunct Clark Theater."

3. What does the narrator see on the street when he is leaving Gin's building on the night of the beach incident?
(a) Gin's blanket.
(b) A condom.
(c) His underwear.
(d) Beach sand.

4. What does the narrator compare the dead woman's hair to?
(a) A horse's tail.
(b) Leaves.
(c) A wig.
(d) Seaweed.

5. What repetition technique is used in the story's opening paragraph?
(a) Epistrophe.
(b) Anaphora.
(c) Antanaclasis.
(d) Epizeuxis.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the narrator compare Gin's mother's rosary?

2. What is the rhetorical purpose of including the detail "the skinny rails of your legs" (235) when the narrator is talking about taking off Gin's bikini bottom?

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 title of the poem used as an epigraph for this story?

5. In what sense is the drowned woman also still constantly in the narrator's thoughts?

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