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

2. What repetition technique is used in the story's opening paragraph?
(a) Epizeuxis.
(b) Anaphora.
(c) Antanaclasis.
(d) Epistrophe.

3. What does Gin tell the narrator she is afraid of when they are lying on the beach together?
(a) Him leaving her.
(b) Someone seeing them having sex.
(c) Getting pregnant.
(d) Her parents finding out.

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

5. 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?
(a) She needs to get her blanket back from him.
(b) She wants to know if he needs an umbrella.
(c) She want to know if he is going to tell anyone what happened.
(d) She wants to tell him that she loves him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which detail of the narrator's description of their kisses indicates the passage of time?

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

3. Gin mentions her "nonna's cottage" (240). Whose cottage is this?

4. Who is the author of "We Didn't"?

5. What is the rhetorical purpose of the anaphora in the narrator's description of the Gold Coast residents having sex?

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