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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) Allusion.
(b) Personification.
(c) Imagery.
(d) Metonymy.
2. What detail on page 233 reveals that some time has passed since the events of the story took place?
(a) The "lilac bushes in Marquette Park."
(b) The "now defunct Clark Theater."
(c) The characters visiting "Oak Street Beach."
(d) Gin saying that she feels "like Doris Day" is watching her.
3. What repetition technique is used in the story's opening paragraph?
(a) Antanaclasis.
(b) Epistrophe.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Epizeuxis.
4. What is the description of the condom springing from the narrator's fingers "like a spring from a clock" (235) meant to convey?
(a) The comical setting of their first attempt at sex.
(b) The pressure of time passing.
(c) The complex nature of growing up.
(d) The narrator's general clumsiness.
5. What technique is evident in the phrase "feverish plucking and twanging, tom-toms, congas, and gongs" (235)?
(a) Hyperbaton.
(b) Euphony.
(c) Double entendre.
(d) Cacophony.
Short Answer Questions
1. On the night when he realizes that their relationship is over, what does the narrator realize he really wants from Gin?
2. 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?
3. Gin mentions her "nonna's cottage" (240). Whose cottage is this?
4. What is the rhetorical purpose of including the detail "the skinny rails of your legs" (235) when the narrator is talking about taking off Gin's bikini bottom?
5. What mood do the diction and details included in the scene where the police leave their cars and enter the water create?
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