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

2. Which of the following is one of the places where the narrator and Gin go to try to resume their attempts at intimacy after the incident at the beach?
(a) A party in the outer suburbs.
(b) The narrator's best friend's house.
(c) Gin's grandmother's house.
(d) The balcony of the Clark Theater.

3. In the story's opening, what details are related to the story's epigraph?
(a) The condition of the Rambler and the rosary.
(b) Light and darkness.
(c) Grass, leaves, and snow.
(d) Gin's bed and their parents' cars.

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

5. In the light from the squad cars and flashlights, what does the narrator see on the beach as the other couples are running away?
(a) Garbage.
(b) The condom.
(c) A dead body.
(d) Dead fish.

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is employed in the phrase "How adept we were at fumbling" (233)?

2. What is the rhetorical purpose of the anaphora in the narrator's description of the Gold Coast residents having sex?

3. What technique is employed in the phrase "and justice for all" (234)?

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

5. 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)?

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