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

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

3. 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) Dead fish.
(c) Garbage.
(d) The condom.

4. Gin mentions her "nonna's cottage" (240). Whose cottage is this?
(a) Her aunt.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Her mother.

5. What is the title of the poem used as an epigraph for this story?
(a) "Water."
(b) "We Did It."
(c) "In Darkness and in Light."
(d) "The Mirror."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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)?

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

4. In what sense is the drowned woman also still constantly in the narrator's thoughts?

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

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