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

2. What is the first priority of the ambulance attendant when he arrives?
(a) To demand that the woman be covered up.
(b) To see if the baby is also deceased.
(c) To ask whether Gin and the narrator know the woman's name.
(d) To try to give the woman CPR.

3. What does Gin mean when she tells the narrator that she knows the dead woman?
(a) The woman is a distant relative of Gin's.
(b) The woman was not much older than Gin.
(c) The woman was from her neighborhood.
(d) She dreams about the woman.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator's tone when he recalls, "I was trying to calm your terror with reassuring phrases such as 'Holy shit! I don’t fucking believe this!'” (236)?

2. What technique is employed in the phrase "and justice for all" (234)?

3. 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?

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

5. 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?

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