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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) Run-down cottages.
(d) Abandoned factories.

2. What happens after the night on the beach, when the narrator senses Gin growing distant while they are kissing?
(a) He pretends to feel the same way she does.
(b) He kisses her harder.
(c) He tells her she is crazy.
(d) He tries to tell her jokes to cheer her up.

3. What does Gin mean when she tells the narrator that she knows the dead woman?
(a) The woman was from her neighborhood.
(b) The woman is a distant relative of Gin's.
(c) The woman was not much older than Gin.
(d) She dreams about the woman.

4. What does the narrator speculate that the lightening across the water might be doing?
(a) Lighting up the paths of far-away freighters.
(b) Chasing the seagulls out of the sky.
(c) Making sea glass on Michigan beaches.
(d) Setting Indiana barns on fire.

5. 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) Antithesis.
(b) Synecdoche.
(c) Polysyndeton.
(d) Asyndeton.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the story's opening, what details are related to the passage of time?

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

3. On the night when he realizes that their relationship is over, what does the narrator realize he really wants from Gin?

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

5. 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?

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