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

2. What technique is used in the phrase "the forlorn, deflated Trojan" (238)?
(a) Personification.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Simile.
(d) Hyperbole.

3. What does Gin tell the narrator she is afraid of when they are lying on the beach together?
(a) Someone seeing them having sex.
(b) Her parents finding out.
(c) Getting pregnant.
(d) Him leaving her.

4. Which of the following is one of the places where the narrator and Gin go to try to resume their attempts at intimacy after the incident at the beach?
(a) The narrator's best friend's house.
(b) The balcony of the Clark Theater.
(c) Gin's grandmother's house.
(d) A party in the outer suburbs.

5. While he is on the beach, what does the narrator imagine the couples in the high-rises around them are wearing?
(a) Spa robes.
(b) Monogrammed pajamas.
(c) Business suits.
(d) Cocktail attire.

Short Answer Questions

1. From the context of page 234, what "apocalypse" is the allusion to the Four Horsemen referring to?

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

3. In the story's opening, what details are related to the story's epigraph?

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?

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

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