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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 narrator's tone when he recalls, "I was trying to calm your terror with reassuring phrases such as 'Holy shit! I don’t fucking believe this!'” (236)?
(a) Fatalistic.
(b) Ironic.
(c) Acerbic.
(d) Bemused.

2. What mood do the diction and details included in the scene where the police leave their cars and enter the water create?
(a) Factual.
(b) Reverent.
(c) Inflammatory.
(d) Frantic.

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

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

5. What is the rhetorical purpose of the anaphora in the narrator's description of the Gold Coast residents having sex?
(a) It highlights the comic understatement of the narrator's response to the situation.
(b) It forms an ironic contrast with the story's opening.
(c) It stresses the similarities between the narrator and these strangers.
(d) It creates increasing tension as the list continues.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Gin tell the narrator "Stop" when they are just about to have sex (236)?

3. What does Gin tell the narrator she is afraid of when they are lying on the beach together?

4. When the police examine the woman's body in the light of their flashlights, what does her nakedness and obvious pregnancy cause them to do?

5. On page 234, which of the following terms does the narrator use to describe the sunset?

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