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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 asks the narrator and Gin questions as they try to leave the beach?
(a) The police officer with the crew cut.
(b) Curious onlookers.
(c) The ambulance attendant.
(d) The police officer with a beer belly.

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

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

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

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) Dead fish.
(d) A dead body.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gin mean when she tells the narrator that she knows the dead woman?

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

3. Gin mentions her "nonna's cottage" (240). Whose cottage is this?

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

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

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