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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 believe is true about the dead woman on the beach?
(a) Gin and the narrator could have saved her.
(b) She was an omen.
(c) Her death was accidental.
(d) She was sent by God.

2. Which detail of the narrator's description of their kisses indicates the passage of time?
(a) The wind.
(b) The lip gloss.
(c) The Cokes.
(d) The suntan lotion.

3. In what sense is the drowned woman also still constantly in the narrator's thoughts?
(a) He sees her as a symbol of his own recklessness.
(b) He imagines that every man he sees could be her killer.
(c) He begins collecting newspaper articles about drownings.
(d) He constantly imagines her there beside Gin.

4. What characteristic of the area around the beach is conveyed with its nickname, the "Gold Coast"?
(a) It is similar to the Mediterranean.
(b) It is expensive.
(c) It is full of opportunity.
(d) It is beautiful.

5. 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."

Short Answer Questions

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

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

4. What mood do the diction and details included in the scene where the police leave their cars and enter the water create?

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

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