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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 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) Garbage.
(c) A dead body.
(d) Dead fish.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the rhetorical purpose of the anaphora in the narrator's description of the Gold Coast residents having sex?

2. Which detail of the narrator's description of their kisses indicates the passage of time?

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

4. What does the narrator see on the street when he is leaving Gin's building on the night of the beach incident?

5. 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)?

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