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

2. In the story's opening, what details are related to the characters' youth?
(a) The condition of the Rambler and the rosary.
(b) Gin's bed and their parents' cars.
(c) Grass, leaves, and snow.
(d) Light and darkness.

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

4. In the story's opening, what details are related to the characters' social circumstances?
(a) Grass, leaves, and snow.
(b) Light and darkness.
(c) Gin's bed and their parents' cars.
(d) The condition of the Rambler and the rosary.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of blanket does Gin bring to the beach?

2. What is the title of the poem used as an epigraph for this story?

3. What kind of buildings are on the lovers' lane?

4. When the narrator unbuttons the second button on Gin's shirt, what does he see?

5. What technique is evident in the phrase "feverish plucking and twanging, tom-toms, congas, and gongs" (235)?

(see the answer key)

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