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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 evident in the phrase "feverish plucking and twanging, tom-toms, congas, and gongs" (235)?
(a) Cacophony.
(b) Hyperbaton.
(c) Euphony.
(d) Double entendre.

2. What does the narrator speculate that the lightening across the water might be doing?
(a) Lighting up the paths of far-away freighters.
(b) Setting Indiana barns on fire.
(c) Chasing the seagulls out of the sky.
(d) Making sea glass on Michigan beaches.

3. 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 apologize to him.
(b) For her to stay away from him.
(c) For her to like him again.
(d) For her to get over the incident on the beach.

4. From the context of page 234, what "apocalypse" is the allusion to the Four Horsemen referring to?
(a) Water scarcity.
(b) Global pandemic.
(c) Climate change.
(d) Nuclear annihilation.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the tone of the narrator's description of people in Gold Coast apartments having sex?

3. To what does the narrator compare Gin's mother's rosary?

4. On page 243, there is a reference to "Casanova." Why is this historical figure mentioned?

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

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