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

2. On page 243, there is a reference to "Casanova." Why is this historical figure mentioned?
(a) He was a priest who argued that premarital sex is not a mortal sin.
(b) He was a legendary lover.
(c) He was a poet who wrote about the nobility of faithfulness.
(d) He was a groundbreaking psychiatrist.

3. What is the first priority of the ambulance attendant when he arrives?
(a) To ask whether Gin and the narrator know the woman's name.
(b) To see if the baby is also deceased.
(c) To try to give the woman CPR.
(d) To demand that the woman be covered up.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gin believe is true about the dead woman on the beach?

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

3. What is the description of the condom springing from the narrator's fingers "like a spring from a clock" (235) meant to convey?

4. Why does the narrator say that Lake Michigan "became" the Pacific Ocean (235)?

5. From the context of page 234, what "apocalypse" is the allusion to the Four Horsemen referring to?

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