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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 tone of the narrator's description of people in Gold Coast apartments having sex?
(a) Wry.
(b) Derisive.
(c) Ghoulish.
(d) Effusive.

2. To what does the narrator compare the other lovers on the beach?
(a) Abandoned mannequins.
(b) Fallen soldiers.
(c) Crash-test dummies.
(d) Sleeping dolls.

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

4. 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) Tell the narrator and Gin to move back.
(b) Cross themselves and say a prayer.
(c) Look at Gin uncomfortably.
(d) Remove their hats and bow their heads.

5. How has the narrator and Gin's relationship changed by the end of the summer?
(a) They argue constantly about trivial things.
(b) The narrator has begun to notice other girls in his neighborhood.
(c) Gin is not comfortable being alone with the narrator.
(d) Gin cries whenever the narrator tries to kiss her.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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)?

4. On the fall night when the narrator realizes that his relationship with Gin is over, what are they arguing about?

5. In Gin's dream about the beach, why has the narrator left her alone?

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