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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. 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) Antithesis.
(d) Synecdoche.

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

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

4. Gin mentions her "nonna's cottage" (240). Whose cottage is this?
(a) Her aunt.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her mother.

5. While he is on the beach, what does the narrator imagine the couples in the high-rises around them are wearing?
(a) Cocktail attire.
(b) Monogrammed pajamas.
(c) Business suits.
(d) Spa robes.

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 does Gin mean when she tells the narrator that she knows the dead woman?

3. How has the narrator and Gin's relationship changed by the end of the summer?

4. In the story's opening, what details are related to the story's epigraph?

5. What does the narrator see on the street when he is leaving Gin's building on the night of the beach incident?

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