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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 is the detail about how long the narrator has been carrying a condom in his pocket meant to convey?
(a) His responsible attitude.
(b) His blindness to Gin's feelings.
(c) His eagerness to have sex with Gin.
(d) His relative experience compared to Gin.

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

3. In what sense is the drowned woman also still constantly in the narrator's thoughts?
(a) He sees her as a symbol of his own recklessness.
(b) He begins collecting newspaper articles about drownings.
(c) He imagines that every man he sees could be her killer.
(d) He constantly imagines her there beside Gin.

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?
(a) A dead body.
(b) The condom.
(c) Garbage.
(d) Dead fish.

5. What does the narrator compare the dead woman's hair to?
(a) A wig.
(b) Seaweed.
(c) Leaves.
(d) A horse's tail.

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 Gin's mother's rosary?

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

5. On the fall night when the narrator realizes that his relationship with Gin is over, what are they arguing about?

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