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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How has the narrator and Gin's relationship changed by the end of the summer?
2. To what does the narrator compare the other lovers on the beach?
3. In the story's opening, what details are related to the characters' social circumstances?
4. What does the narrator compare the dead woman's hair to?
5. What kind of blanket does Gin bring to the beach?
Short Essay Questions
1. On the night in the lover's lane toward the end of the story, what does the narrator realize about his relationship with Gin?
2. What do the first paragraph's details about the father's car convey about the family's social class?
3. What messages about gender, sex, and adulthood are being conveyed in the phrase "entered you as if passing through a gateway into the rest of my life," which the narrator uses to describe his beliefs about what is happening on the beach that night?
4. What is the rhetorical purpose of including the narrator's loss of the condom right before the drowned woman's body is discovered?
5. What does Gin dream about a baby in the water, and what does she believe her dream means?
6. In what sense does the narrator mean that, after the night on Oak Street Beach, the dead woman was always "with" him and Gin?
7. What scenario does Gin keep thinking about after the night on Oak Street Beach?
8. What is the rhetorical purpose of the narrator's comments about the "bloodless way in which a young man discards his own virginity" (235)?
9. What point about the relationship between men and women is made by the details the narrator observes on his train ride home after the night at Oak Street Beach?
10. How is the From Here to Eternity love scene evoked ironically when the narrator and Gin are on the beach?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the role of free will in "We Didn't." Be sure to support your assertions with textual evidence.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the relationship between sex and adulthood in "We Didn't." Consider both the characters' perspectives and the implied authorial perspective. Use textual evidence to support your assertions.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the role of comic techniques in "We Didn't." Identify the techniques that are used as you offer your ideas about the purpose of including humorous moments in the story. Use quoted textual evidence to support your assertions.
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