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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 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?
(a) Cups.
(b) Fruit.
(c) A garden.
(d) Water.

2. When the narrator unbuttons the second button on Gin's shirt, what does he see?
(a) Her camisole.
(b) A bruise.
(c) Her cross.
(d) A scar.

3. What technique is employed in the phrase "How adept we were at fumbling" (233)?
(a) Juxtaposition.
(b) Verbal irony.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Oxymoron.

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

5. To what does the narrator compare the other lovers on the beach?
(a) Abandoned mannequins.
(b) Sleeping dolls.
(c) Crash-test dummies.
(d) Fallen soldiers.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the story's opening, what details are related to the characters' social circumstances?

2. 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?

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

4. What is the title of the poem used as an epigraph for this story?

5. While he is on the beach, what does the narrator imagine the couples in the high-rises around them are wearing?

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