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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 tone of the narrator's description of people in Gold Coast apartments having sex?
(a) Effusive.
(b) Wry.
(c) Derisive.
(d) Ghoulish.

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

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

4. What happens after the night on the beach, when the narrator senses Gin growing distant while they are kissing?
(a) He tries to tell her jokes to cheer her up.
(b) He kisses her harder.
(c) He pretends to feel the same way she does.
(d) He tells her she is crazy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of buildings are on the lovers' lane?

2. From the context of page 234, what "apocalypse" is the allusion to the Four Horsemen referring to?

3. 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) ?

4. 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)?

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

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