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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 is the tone of the narrator's description of people in Gold Coast apartments having sex?
(a) Ghoulish.
(b) Wry.
(c) Effusive.
(d) Derisive.

2. 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?
(a) A party in the outer suburbs.
(b) The balcony of the Clark Theater.
(c) The narrator's best friend's house.
(d) Gin's grandmother's house.

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

4. What repetition technique is used in the story's opening paragraph?
(a) Epizeuxis.
(b) Antanaclasis.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Epistrophe.

5. 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) Reverent.
(c) Frantic.
(d) Factual.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator compare the dead woman's hair to?

2. In the story's opening, what details are related to the characters' youth?

3. In Gin's dream about the beach, why has the narrator left her alone?

4. What is the description of the condom springing from the narrator's fingers "like a spring from a clock" (235) meant to convey?

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

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