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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. To what British author does the narrator ironically compare himself near the end of the story?
(a) D. H. Lawrence.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) Rudyard Kipling.
(d) H. G. Wells.

2. What is the title of the poem used as an epigraph for this story?
(a) "Water."
(b) "We Did It."
(c) "The Mirror."
(d) "In Darkness and in Light."

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

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

5. Which of the following is one of the places where the narrator and Gin go to try to resume their attempts at intimacy after the incident at the beach?
(a) The narrator's best friend's house.
(b) The balcony of the Clark Theater.
(c) Gin's grandmother's house.
(d) A party in the outer suburbs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which detail of the narrator's description of their kisses indicates the passage of time?

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

4. What is the rhetorical purpose of including the detail "the skinny rails of your legs" (235) when the narrator is talking about taking off Gin's bikini bottom?

5. What is the tone of the narrator's description of people in Gold Coast apartments having sex?

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