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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. Who asks the narrator and Gin questions as they try to leave the beach?
(a) The police officer with the crew cut.
(b) The ambulance attendant.
(c) Curious onlookers.
(d) The police officer with a beer belly.

2. 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?
(a) Cups.
(b) A garden.
(c) Fruit.
(d) Water.

3. Why does the narrator say that Lake Michigan "became" the Pacific Ocean (235)?
(a) Gin has always imagined losing her virginity on a California beach.
(b) He is experiencing a feeling of being lost in space and time.
(c) The sound of the waves is exaggerated by his excitement.
(d) He is referencing the film From Here to Eternity.

4. What is the title of the poem used as an epigraph for this story?
(a) "In Darkness and in Light."
(b) "We Did It."
(c) "The Mirror."
(d) "Water."

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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) ?

3. What is the first priority of the ambulance attendant when he arrives?

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 is the tone of the narrator's description of people in Gold Coast apartments having sex?

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