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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 kind of blanket does Gin bring to the beach?
(a) Her grandmother's quilt.
(b) An army blanket.
(c) A Navajo blanket.
(d) A picnic blanket.

2. 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) Antithesis.
(c) Synecdoche.
(d) Asyndeton.

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

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

5. What characteristic of the area around the beach is conveyed with its nickname, the "Gold Coast"?
(a) It is beautiful.
(b) It is similar to the Mediterranean.
(c) It is expensive.
(d) It is full of opportunity.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who asks the narrator and Gin questions as they try to leave the beach?

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

5. On page 234, which of the following terms does the narrator use to describe the sunset?

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