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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 technique is employed in the phrase "How adept we were at fumbling" (233)?
(a) Oxymoron.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Verbal irony.
(d) Juxtaposition.

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

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

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

5. 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 highlights the comic understatement of the narrator's response to the situation.
(c) It stresses the similarities between the narrator and these strangers.
(d) It creates increasing tension as the list continues.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator say that Lake Michigan "became" the Pacific Ocean (235)?

2. How has the narrator and Gin's relationship changed by the end of the summer?

3. What is the first priority of the ambulance attendant when he arrives?

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

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

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