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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. Who asks the narrator and Gin questions as they try to leave the beach?
(a) The ambulance attendant.
(b) The police officer with the crew cut.
(c) The police officer with a beer belly.
(d) Curious onlookers.

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

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

4. What technique is used in the sentence "On my fingers your slick scent mixed with the coconut musk of the suntan lotion we’d repeatedly smeared over each other's bodies" (234) ?
(a) Allusion.
(b) Imagery.
(c) Metonymy.
(d) Personification.

5. To what British author does the narrator ironically compare himself near the end of the story?
(a) D. H. Lawrence.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) H. G. Wells.
(d) Rudyard Kipling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What repetition technique is used in the story's opening paragraph?

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

3. What detail on page 233 reveals that some time has passed since the events of the story took place?

4. What characteristic of the area around the beach is conveyed with its nickname, the "Gold Coast"?

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

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