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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. On the fall night when the narrator realizes that his relationship with Gin is over, what are they arguing about?
2. What technique is employed in the phrase "How adept we were at fumbling" (233)?
3. What does the narrator speculate that the lightening across the water might be doing?
4. What technique is employed in the phrase "and justice for all" (234)?
5. What kind of buildings are on the lovers' lane?
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 is the rhetorical purpose of the narrator's comments about the "bloodless way in which a young man discards his own virginity" (235)?
3. On page 233, the narrator describes the girlfriend's mother's car as having "a rosary twined [around] the rearview mirror like a beaded, black snake with silver, cruciform fangs." Describe the tone of this image and explain how it is related to the narrator's later description of unbuttoning his girlfriend's shirt.
4. 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?
5. What is foreshadowed by the page 233 description of their "lover's lane"?
6. What does Gin dream about a baby in the water, and what does she believe her dream means?
7. When the narrator and Gin are on the beach, what does the narrator imagine the people along the Gold Coast doing, and what thematic ideas does his description convey?
8. What is the rhetorical purpose of including the narrator's loss of the condom right before the drowned woman's body is discovered?
9. Explain the relationship of the story's title to the Amichai poem excerpt used as an epigraph.
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay in which you make and defend a claim regarding the theme of "We Didn't." Support your ideas with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay in which you make and defend a claim regarding the inclusion of religious imagery in "We Didn't." Use textual evidence to support your assertions, and if you consult outside sources be sure to credit them in MLA format.
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