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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. To what does the narrator compare the other lovers on the beach?
(a) Crash-test dummies.
(b) Fallen soldiers.
(c) Sleeping dolls.
(d) Abandoned mannequins.

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

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

4. To what British author does the narrator ironically compare himself near the end of the story?
(a) Rudyard Kipling.
(b) D. H. Lawrence.
(c) H. G. Wells.
(d) James Joyce.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the detail about how long the narrator has been carrying a condom in his pocket meant to convey?

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) ?

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

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

5. In what sense is the drowned woman also still constantly in the narrator's thoughts?

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