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

2. On page 234, which of the following terms does the narrator use to describe the sunset?
(a) "Panorama pink."
(b) "Pink peace."
(c) "Restless rose."
(d) "Rose rapture."

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

4. What kind of blanket does Gin bring to the beach?
(a) A picnic blanket.
(b) Her grandmother's quilt.
(c) An army blanket.
(d) A Navajo blanket.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the tone of the narrator's description of people in Gold Coast apartments having sex?

2. What is the rhetorical purpose of including the detail "the skinny rails of your legs" (235) when the narrator is talking about taking off Gin's bikini bottom?

3. What technique is employed in the phrase "How adept we were at fumbling" (233)?

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

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

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