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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. How has the narrator and Gin's relationship changed by the end of the summer?
(a) They argue constantly about trivial things.
(b) Gin cries whenever the narrator tries to kiss her.
(c) Gin is not comfortable being alone with the narrator.
(d) The narrator has begun to notice other girls in his neighborhood.

2. What happens after the night on the beach, when the narrator senses Gin growing distant while they are kissing?
(a) He tries to tell her jokes to cheer her up.
(b) He pretends to feel the same way she does.
(c) He tells her she is crazy.
(d) He kisses her harder.

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

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

5. 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) Garbage.
(b) Dead fish.
(c) The condom.
(d) A dead body.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Gin tell the narrator "Stop" when they are just about to have sex (236)?

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

3. To what does the narrator compare the other lovers on the beach?

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

5. 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)?

(see the answer key)

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