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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 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) ?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Metonymy.
(d) Personification.

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

3. What is the title of the poem used as an epigraph for this story?
(a) "We Did It."
(b) "In Darkness and in Light."
(c) "Water."
(d) "The Mirror."

4. What mood do the diction and details included in the scene where the police leave their cars and enter the water create?
(a) Inflammatory.
(b) Frantic.
(c) Factual.
(d) Reverent.

5. On the night when he realizes that their relationship is over, what does the narrator realize he really wants from Gin?
(a) For her to stay away from him.
(b) For her to apologize to him.
(c) For her to like him again.
(d) For her to get over the incident on the beach.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Gin mean when she tells the narrator that she knows the dead woman?

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

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

5. On the fall night when the narrator realizes that his relationship with Gin is over, what are they arguing about?

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