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

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

3. What does the narrator compare the dead woman's hair to?
(a) A wig.
(b) Leaves.
(c) A horse's tail.
(d) Seaweed.

4. On the night when he realizes that their relationship is over, what does the narrator realize he really wants from Gin?
(a) For her to get over the incident on the beach.
(b) For her to like him again.
(c) For her to stay away from him.
(d) For her to apologize to him.

5. What does Gin mean when she tells the narrator that she knows the dead woman?
(a) The woman was from her neighborhood.
(b) The woman is a distant relative of Gin's.
(c) She dreams about the woman.
(d) The woman was not much older than Gin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is employed in the phrase "How adept we were at fumbling" (233)?

2. What mood do the diction and details included in the scene where the police leave their cars and enter the water create?

3. What repetition technique is used in the story's opening paragraph?

4. What characteristic of the area around the beach is conveyed with its nickname, the "Gold Coast"?

5. What technique is employed in the phrase "and justice for all" (234)?

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