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

2. What technique is used in the phrase "the forlorn, deflated Trojan" (238)?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Simile.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Personification.

3. To what does the narrator compare Gin's mother's rosary?
(a) A belt.
(b) A snake.
(c) A bolo tie.
(d) A noose.

4. On page 243, there is a reference to "Casanova." Why is this historical figure mentioned?
(a) He was a poet who wrote about the nobility of faithfulness.
(b) He was a priest who argued that premarital sex is not a mortal sin.
(c) He was a legendary lover.
(d) He was a groundbreaking psychiatrist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gin tell the narrator she is afraid of when they are lying on the beach together?

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

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

4. In the story's opening, what details are related to the story's epigraph?

5. When the narrator unbuttons the second button on Gin's shirt, what does he see?

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