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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. On the night when he realizes that their relationship is over, what does the narrator realize he really wants from Gin?
(a) For her to like him again.
(b) For her to apologize to him.
(c) For her to stay away from him.
(d) For her to get over the incident on the beach.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator see on the street when he is leaving Gin's building on the night of the beach incident?

2. Who asks the narrator and Gin questions as they try to leave the beach?

3. 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?

4. What does the narrator speculate that the lightening across the water might be doing?

5. In the light from the squad cars and flashlights, what does the narrator see on the beach as the other couples are running away?

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