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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. In the light from the squad cars and flashlights, what does the narrator see on the beach as the other couples are running away?
(a) The condom.
(b) A dead body.
(c) Garbage.
(d) Dead fish.

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

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

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 blindness to Gin's feelings.
(c) His responsible attitude.
(d) His relative experience compared to Gin.

5. What technique is evident in the phrase "feverish plucking and twanging, tom-toms, congas, and gongs" (235)?
(a) Double entendre.
(b) Hyperbaton.
(c) Cacophony.
(d) Euphony.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what British author does the narrator ironically compare himself near the end of the story?

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

3. Who asks the narrator and Gin questions as they try to leave the beach?

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

5. In the simile that the narrator uses when he describes holding Gin's breasts in his hands on page 234, to what does he compare her breasts?

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