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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 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?
(a) To imply that the narrator is not really attracted to Gin.
(b) To convey the narrator's ambiguous sexual orientation.
(c) To depict Gin's youth and vulnerability.
(d) To create a mood of disgust.

2. 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) Acerbic.
(b) Ironic.
(c) Bemused.
(d) Fatalistic.

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

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)?
(a) Antithesis.
(b) Polysyndeton.
(c) Asyndeton.
(d) Synecdoche.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does the narrator say that Lake Michigan "became" the Pacific Ocean (235)?

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

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

5. To what does the narrator compare the other lovers on the beach?

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