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

2. In Gin's dream about the beach, why has the narrator left her alone?
(a) He has gone to get some mustard.
(b) They have had a big fight.
(c) He is trying to help find a lost child.
(d) After they have sex, he loses interest in her.

3. What is the rhetorical purpose of including the detail "the skinny rails of your legs" (235) when the narrator is talking about taking off Gin's bikini bottom?
(a) To imply that the narrator is not really attracted to Gin.
(b) To create a mood of disgust.
(c) To convey the narrator's ambiguous sexual orientation.
(d) To depict Gin's youth and vulnerability.

4. From the context of page 234, what "apocalypse" is the allusion to the Four Horsemen referring to?
(a) Global pandemic.
(b) Nuclear annihilation.
(c) Climate change.
(d) Water scarcity.

5. What does Gin believe is true about the dead woman on the beach?
(a) She was sent by God.
(b) She was an omen.
(c) Her death was accidental.
(d) Gin and the narrator could have saved her.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the narrator drops Gin off at her building on the night of the incident at the beach, why does she run back outside and call after him?

2. 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?

3. Gin mentions her "nonna's cottage" (240). Whose cottage is this?

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 technique is employed in the phrase "How adept we were at fumbling" (233)?

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