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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 happens after the night on the beach, when the narrator senses Gin growing distant while they are kissing?
(a) He kisses her harder.
(b) He tries to tell her jokes to cheer her up.
(c) He tells her she is crazy.
(d) He pretends to feel the same way she does.
2. How has the narrator and Gin's relationship changed by the end of the summer?
(a) They argue constantly about trivial things.
(b) Gin cries whenever the narrator tries to kiss her.
(c) Gin is not comfortable being alone with the narrator.
(d) The narrator has begun to notice other girls in his neighborhood.
3. In the story's opening, what details are related to the characters' youth?
(a) Grass, leaves, and snow.
(b) Gin's bed and their parents' cars.
(c) The condition of the Rambler and the rosary.
(d) Light and darkness.
4. What does the narrator compare the dead woman's hair to?
(a) Leaves.
(b) A horse's tail.
(c) A wig.
(d) Seaweed.
5. What is the first priority of the ambulance attendant when he arrives?
(a) To try to give the woman CPR.
(b) To demand that the woman be covered up.
(c) To ask whether Gin and the narrator know the woman's name.
(d) To see if the baby is also deceased.
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. While he is on the beach, what does the narrator imagine the couples in the high-rises around them are wearing?
3. Why does the narrator say that Lake Michigan "became" the Pacific Ocean (235)?
4. 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?
5. What is the description of the condom springing from the narrator's fingers "like a spring from a clock" (235) meant to convey?
This section contains 399 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) |
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