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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 technique is employed in the phrase "and justice for all" (234)?
(a) Verbal irony.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Litotes.

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

3. 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 expensive.
(d) It is similar to the Mediterranean.

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

5. What does Gin mean when she tells the narrator that she knows the dead woman?
(a) The woman is a distant relative of Gin's.
(b) The woman was not much older than Gin.
(c) She dreams about the woman.
(d) The woman was from her neighborhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What detail on page 233 reveals that some time has passed since the events of the story took place?

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

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

4. What mood do the diction and details included in the scene where the police leave their cars and enter the water create?

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

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