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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. In the light from the squad cars and flashlights, what does the narrator see on the beach as the other couples are running away?
2. Which of the following is one of the places where the narrator and Gin go to try to resume their attempts at intimacy after the incident at the beach?
3. In the story's opening, what details are related to the story's epigraph?
4. Why does the narrator say that Lake Michigan "became" the Pacific Ocean (235)?
5. What does Gin mean when she tells the narrator that she knows the dead woman?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Gin dream about a baby in the water, and what does she believe her dream means?
2. How is the From Here to Eternity love scene evoked ironically when the narrator and Gin are on the beach?
3. Where are some of the places listed in the poem's opening paragraph, and how do they convey the couple's youth?
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 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?
6. What does Gin dream about the dead woman and her grandmother's cottage?
7. In what sense does the narrator mean that, after the night on Oak Street Beach, the dead woman was always "with" him and Gin?
8. What does the narrator say might have happened if the dead woman had washed up beside them while he and Gin were trying to have sex on the beach, and why is Gin so offended?
9. What is the rhetorical effect of the diction used in the following description of the setting at Oak Street Beach: "The lake had turned hot pink, rose rapture, pearl amethyst with dusk, then washed in night black with a ruff of silver foam. Beyond a momentary horizon, silent bolts of heat lightning throbbed" (234)?
10. 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.
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 in which you make and defend a claim about the symbolic uses of water in the story. Be sure to defend your ideas with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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