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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What technique is used in the phrase "the forlorn, deflated Trojan" (238)?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Personification.
(c) Simile.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

2. 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) Gin is not comfortable being alone with the narrator.
(c) The narrator has begun to notice other girls in his neighborhood.
(d) They argue constantly about trivial things.

3. 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 stay away from him.
(b) For her to like him again.
(c) For her to get over the incident on the beach.
(d) For her to apologize to him.

4. After the narrator drops Gin off at her building on the night of the incident at the beach, why does she run back outside and call after him?
(a) She needs to get her blanket back from him.
(b) She wants to tell him that she loves him.
(c) She wants to know if he needs an umbrella.
(d) She want to know if he is going to tell anyone what happened.

5. Who asks the narrator and Gin questions as they try to leave the beach?
(a) The police officer with the crew cut.
(b) The ambulance attendant.
(c) Curious onlookers.
(d) The police officer with a beer belly.

6. Which detail of the narrator's description of their kisses indicates the passage of time?
(a) The lip gloss.
(b) The Cokes.
(c) The suntan lotion.
(d) The wind.

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

8. What is the narrator's tone when he recalls, "I was trying to calm your terror with reassuring phrases such as 'Holy shit! I don’t fucking believe this!'” (236)?
(a) Bemused.
(b) Fatalistic.
(c) Ironic.
(d) Acerbic.

9. What kind of buildings are on the lovers' lane?
(a) Run-down cottages.
(b) Abandoned factories.
(c) Giant warehouses.
(d) Bars and strip clubs.

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

11. In the simile that the narrator uses when he describes holding Gin's breasts in his hands on page 234, to what does he compare her breasts?
(a) A garden.
(b) Water.
(c) Fruit.
(d) Cups.

12. What characteristic of the area around the beach is conveyed with its nickname, the "Gold Coast"?
(a) It is beautiful.
(b) It is full of opportunity.
(c) It is similar to the Mediterranean.
(d) It is expensive.

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

14. What is the tone of the narrator's description of people in Gold Coast apartments having sex?
(a) Ghoulish.
(b) Wry.
(c) Derisive.
(d) Effusive.

15. What mood do the diction and details included in the scene where the police leave their cars and enter the water create?
(a) Inflammatory.
(b) Reverent.
(c) Frantic.
(d) Factual.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the author of "We Didn't"?

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

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

5. 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) ?

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