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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What technique is employed in the phrase "and justice for all" (234)?
(a) Verbal irony.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Litotes.

2. 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.

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

4. What does Gin believe is true about the dead woman on the beach?
(a) Gin and the narrator could have saved her.
(b) She was sent by God.
(c) She was an omen.
(d) Her death was accidental.

5. What does the narrator speculate that the lightening across the water might be doing?
(a) Lighting up the paths of far-away freighters.
(b) Setting Indiana barns on fire.
(c) Chasing the seagulls out of the sky.
(d) Making sea glass on Michigan beaches.

6. To what does the narrator compare Gin's mother's rosary?
(a) A noose.
(b) A bolo tie.
(c) A snake.
(d) A belt.

7. Why does Gin tell the narrator "Stop" when they are just about to have sex (236)?
(a) She sees something in the water.
(b) She has changed her mind about having sex.
(c) The narrator's condom has fallen off.
(d) She sees the police lights.

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

9. 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 complex nature of growing up.
(b) The pressure of time passing.
(c) The narrator's general clumsiness.
(d) The comical setting of their first attempt at sex.

10. What does the narrator see on the street when he is leaving Gin's building on the night of the beach incident?
(a) Beach sand.
(b) His underwear.
(c) Gin's blanket.
(d) A condom.

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

12. From the context of page 234, what "apocalypse" is the allusion to the Four Horsemen referring to?
(a) Nuclear annihilation.
(b) Global pandemic.
(c) Water scarcity.
(d) Climate change.

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

14. 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 similar to the Mediterranean.
(d) It is full of opportunity.

15. In Gin's dream about the beach, why has the narrator left her alone?
(a) He is trying to help find a lost child.
(b) After they have sex, he loses interest in her.
(c) They have had a big fight.
(d) He has gone to get some mustard.

Short Answer Questions

1. On the night when he realizes that their relationship is over, what does the narrator realize he really wants from Gin?

2. What is the first priority of the ambulance attendant when he arrives?

3. While he is on the beach, what does the narrator imagine the couples in the high-rises around them are wearing?

4. On the fall night when the narrator realizes that his relationship with Gin is over, what are they arguing about?

5. When the narrator unbuttons the second button on Gin's shirt, what does he see?

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