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

2. What does the narrator see on the street when he is leaving Gin's building on the night of the beach incident?
(a) Beach sand.
(b) A condom.
(c) Gin's blanket.
(d) His underwear.

3. What technique is evident in the phrase "feverish plucking and twanging, tom-toms, congas, and gongs" (235)?
(a) Cacophony.
(b) Double entendre.
(c) Hyperbaton.
(d) Euphony.

4. What does the narrator speculate that the lightening across the water might be doing?
(a) Making sea glass on Michigan beaches.
(b) Lighting up the paths of far-away freighters.
(c) Chasing the seagulls out of the sky.
(d) Setting Indiana barns on fire.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Gin believe is true about the dead woman on the beach?

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

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) ?

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

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