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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. 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)?
(a) Asyndeton.
(b) Synecdoche.
(c) Polysyndeton.
(d) Antithesis.

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. 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)?
(a) Ironic.
(b) Bemused.
(c) Fatalistic.
(d) Acerbic.

4. What does the narrator compare the dead woman's hair to?
(a) Leaves.
(b) A horse's tail.
(c) A wig.
(d) Seaweed.

5. 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) The police officer with the crew cut.
(d) Curious onlookers.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the narrator compare Gin's mother's rosary?

2. On page 234, which of the following terms does the narrator use to describe the sunset?

3. After the narrator drops Gin off at her building on the night of the incident at the beach, why does she run back outside and call after him?

4. In the light from the squad cars and flashlights, what does the narrator see on the beach as the other couples are running away?

5. 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?

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