View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "We Didn't".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the story's opening, what details are related to the story's epigraph?
(a) Gin's bed and their parents' cars.
(b) Grass, leaves, and snow.
(c) Light and darkness.
(d) The condition of the Rambler and the rosary.

3. What does the narrator compare the dead woman's hair to?
(a) Seaweed.
(b) A wig.
(c) A horse's tail.
(d) Leaves.

4. On the night when he realizes that their relationship is over, what does the narrator realize he really wants from Gin?
(a) For her to like him again.
(b) For her to get over the incident on the beach.
(c) For her to apologize to him.
(d) For her to stay away from him.

5. 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) A garden.
(b) Water.
(c) Cups.
(d) Fruit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gin mean when she tells the narrator that she knows the dead woman?

2. In what sense is the drowned woman also still constantly in the narrator's thoughts?

3. Who asks the narrator and Gin questions as they try to leave the beach?

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 kind of blanket does Gin bring to the beach?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 357 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample