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

2. 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.

3. Gin mentions her "nonna's cottage" (240). Whose cottage is this?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her aunt.
(d) Her mother.

4. What is the detail about how long the narrator has been carrying a condom in his pocket meant to convey?
(a) His eagerness to have sex with Gin.
(b) His relative experience compared to Gin.
(c) His responsible attitude.
(d) His blindness to Gin's feelings.

5. 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) Imagery.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Personification.
(d) Metonymy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator see on the street when he is leaving Gin's building on the night of the beach incident?

2. What is the description of the condom springing from the narrator's fingers "like a spring from a clock" (235) meant to convey?

3. On page 234, which of the following terms does the narrator use to describe the sunset?

4. What does the narrator speculate that the lightening across the water might be doing?

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

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