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

2. 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) Grass, leaves, and snow.
(d) Light and darkness.

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

4. 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) ?
(a) Personification.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Imagery.
(d) Allusion.

5. What mood do the diction and details included in the scene where the police leave their cars and enter the water create?
(a) Frantic.
(b) Inflammatory.
(c) Factual.
(d) Reverent.

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

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

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

5. What does Gin mean when she tells the narrator that she knows the dead woman?

(see the answer key)

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