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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) Wry.
(b) Ghoulish.
(c) Effusive.
(d) Derisive.

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

3. What does Gin tell the narrator she is afraid of when they are lying on the beach together?
(a) Him leaving her.
(b) Someone seeing them having sex.
(c) Her parents finding out.
(d) Getting pregnant.

4. In the simile that the narrator uses when he describes holding Gin's breasts in his hands on page 234, to what does he compare her breasts?
(a) Cups.
(b) A garden.
(c) Water.
(d) Fruit.

5. On the fall night when the narrator realizes that his relationship with Gin is over, what are they arguing about?
(a) The drowned woman.
(b) A series of Elvis movies they saw at a drive-in.
(c) A female poet who has committed suicide.
(d) Whether they will ever have sex.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the narrator unbuttons the second button on Gin's shirt, what does he see?

2. What technique is employed in the phrase "and justice for all" (234)?

3. While he is on the beach, what does the narrator imagine the couples in the high-rises around them are wearing?

4. What detail on page 233 reveals that some time has passed since the events of the story took place?

5. What technique is used in the phrase "the forlorn, deflated Trojan" (238)?

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