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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) Effusive.
(b) Wry.
(c) Derisive.
(d) Ghoulish.

2. What is the rhetorical purpose of the anaphora in the narrator's description of the Gold Coast residents having sex?
(a) It stresses the similarities between the narrator and these strangers.
(b) It highlights the comic understatement of the narrator's response to the situation.
(c) It forms an ironic contrast with the story's opening.
(d) It creates increasing tension as the list continues.

3. To what does the narrator compare Gin's mother's rosary?
(a) A noose.
(b) A bolo tie.
(c) A snake.
(d) A belt.

4. 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?
(a) Cups.
(b) Water.
(c) A garden.
(d) Fruit.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In the story's opening, what details are related to the story's epigraph?

3. In the light from the squad cars and flashlights, what does the narrator see on the beach as the other couples are running away?

4. 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)?

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

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