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

2. To what does the narrator compare Gin's mother's rosary?
(a) A bolo tie.
(b) A noose.
(c) A snake.
(d) A belt.

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

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

5. 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) Polysyndeton.
(b) Asyndeton.
(c) Synecdoche.
(d) Antithesis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first priority of the ambulance attendant when he arrives?

2. To what British author does the narrator ironically compare himself near the end of the story?

3. How has the narrator and Gin's relationship changed by the end of the summer?

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

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

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