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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. In the story's opening, what details are related to the passage of time?
(a) Gin's bed and their parents' cars.
(b) The condition of the Rambler and the rosary.
(c) Grass, leaves, and snow.
(d) Light and darkness.

2. In the story's opening, what details are related to the characters' youth?
(a) Grass, leaves, and snow.
(b) The condition of the Rambler and the rosary.
(c) Light and darkness.
(d) Gin's bed and their parents' cars.

3. Gin mentions her "nonna's cottage" (240). Whose cottage is this?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her aunt.

4. What technique is employed in the phrase "and justice for all" (234)?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Verbal irony.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Litotes.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To what does the narrator compare the other lovers on the beach?

3. In what sense is the drowned woman also still constantly in the narrator's thoughts?

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

5. What technique is employed in the phrase "How adept we were at fumbling" (233)?

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