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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) Abandoned factories.
(b) Run-down cottages.
(c) Giant warehouses.
(d) Bars and strip clubs.

2. What is the description of the condom springing from the narrator's fingers "like a spring from a clock" (235) meant to convey?
(a) The comical setting of their first attempt at sex.
(b) The complex nature of growing up.
(c) The narrator's general clumsiness.
(d) The pressure of time passing.

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

4. 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?
(a) She want to know if he is going to tell anyone what happened.
(b) She wants to tell him that she loves him.
(c) She needs to get her blanket back from him.
(d) She wants to know if he needs an umbrella.

5. What is the tone of the narrator's description of people in Gold Coast apartments having sex?
(a) Wry.
(b) Ghoulish.
(c) Effusive.
(d) Derisive.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the light from the squad cars and flashlights, what does the narrator see on the beach as the other couples are running away?

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

3. What happens after the night on the beach, when the narrator senses Gin growing distant while they are kissing?

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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