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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. What detail on page 233 reveals that some time has passed since the events of the story took place?
(a) The characters visiting "Oak Street Beach."
(b) Gin saying that she feels "like Doris Day" is watching her.
(c) The "now defunct Clark Theater."
(d) The "lilac bushes in Marquette Park."

2. Who is the author of "We Didn't"?
(a) Vincent Kowalski.
(b) Perry Katzek.
(c) Stuart Dybek.
(d) Yehuda Amichai.

3. On the fall night when the narrator realizes that his relationship with Gin is over, what are they arguing about?
(a) A series of Elvis movies they saw at a drive-in.
(b) A female poet who has committed suicide.
(c) The drowned woman.
(d) Whether they will ever have sex.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Gin's dream about the beach, why has the narrator left her alone?

3. 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)?

4. In the light from the squad cars and flashlights, what does the narrator see on the beach as the other couples are running away?

5. What does the narrator compare the dead woman's hair to?

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