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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 employed in the phrase "How adept we were at fumbling" (233)?
(a) Verbal irony.
(b) Oxymoron.
(c) Juxtaposition.
(d) Paradox.

2. In what sense is the drowned woman also still constantly in the narrator's thoughts?
(a) He sees her as a symbol of his own recklessness.
(b) He imagines that every man he sees could be her killer.
(c) He constantly imagines her there beside Gin.
(d) He begins collecting newspaper articles about drownings.

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

4. What technique is used in the phrase "the forlorn, deflated Trojan" (238)?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Personification.
(d) Simile.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gin tell the narrator she is afraid of when they are lying on the beach together?

2. While he is on the beach, what does the narrator imagine the couples in the high-rises around them are wearing?

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

4. What does the narrator speculate that the lightening across the water might be doing?

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

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