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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) Stuart Dybek.
(c) Yehuda Amichai.
(d) Vincent Kowalski.

2. 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) Setting Indiana barns on fire.
(d) Lighting up the paths of far-away freighters.

3. 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) ?
(a) Personification.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Imagery.

4. What is the first priority of the ambulance attendant when he arrives?
(a) To try to give the woman CPR.
(b) To demand that the woman be covered up.
(c) To ask whether Gin and the narrator know the woman's name.
(d) To see if the baby is also deceased.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the story's opening, what details are related to the characters' social circumstances?

2. In the story's opening, what details are related to the passage of time?

3. What does Gin believe is true about the dead woman on the beach?

4. Which detail of the narrator's description of their kisses indicates the passage of time?

5. What technique is evident in the phrase "feverish plucking and twanging, tom-toms, congas, and gongs" (235)?

(see the answer key)

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