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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 buildings are on the lovers' lane?
(a) Bars and strip clubs.
(b) Giant warehouses.
(c) Abandoned factories.
(d) Run-down cottages.

2. What technique is used in the sentence "On my fingers your slick scent mixed with the coconut musk of the suntan lotion we’d repeatedly smeared over each other's bodies" (234) ?
(a) Personification.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Imagery.
(d) Allusion.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. To what does the narrator compare the other lovers on the beach?

4. What technique is employed in the phrase "and justice for all" (234)?

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

(see the answer key)

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