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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. While he is on the beach, what does the narrator imagine the couples in the high-rises around them are wearing?
(a) Business suits.
(b) Spa robes.
(c) Monogrammed pajamas.
(d) Cocktail attire.

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

3. 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?
(a) Gin's grandmother's house.
(b) The balcony of the Clark Theater.
(c) A party in the outer suburbs.
(d) The narrator's best friend's house.

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) Imagery.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Personification.
(d) Metonymy.

5. In Gin's dream about the beach, why has the narrator left her alone?
(a) They have had a big fight.
(b) He has gone to get some mustard.
(c) After they have sex, he loses interest in her.
(d) He is trying to help find a lost child.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the description of the condom springing from the narrator's fingers "like a spring from a clock" (235) meant to convey?

2. What kind of blanket does Gin bring to the beach?

3. 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?

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

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

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