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

2. What technique is employed in the phrase "and justice for all" (234)?
(a) Allusion.
(b) Verbal irony.
(c) Litotes.
(d) Metaphor.

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

4. What is the description of the condom springing from the narrator's fingers "like a spring from a clock" (235) meant to convey?
(a) The complex nature of growing up.
(b) The narrator's general clumsiness.
(c) The pressure of time passing.
(d) The comical setting of their first attempt at sex.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the narrator compare the other lovers on the beach?

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?

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

4. Which of the following techniques is used in the sentence "How adept we were at fumbling, how perfectly mistimed our timing, how utterly we confused energy with ecstasy" (233)?

5. What happens after the night on the beach, when the narrator senses Gin growing distant while they are kissing?

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