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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. 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?
(a) She needs to get her blanket back from him.
(b) She wants to tell him that she loves him.
(c) She want to know if he is going to tell anyone what happened.
(d) She wants to know if he needs an umbrella.

2. In the light from the squad cars and flashlights, what does the narrator see on the beach as the other couples are running away?
(a) The condom.
(b) A dead body.
(c) Garbage.
(d) Dead fish.

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

4. Gin mentions her "nonna's cottage" (240). Whose cottage is this?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her aunt.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is evident in the phrase "feverish plucking and twanging, tom-toms, congas, and gongs" (235)?

2. From the context of page 234, what "apocalypse" is the allusion to the Four Horsemen referring to?

3. In the story's opening, what details are related to the characters' social circumstances?

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

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