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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. What is the tone of the narrator's description of people in Gold Coast apartments having sex?
(a) Wry.
(b) Derisive.
(c) Ghoulish.
(d) Effusive.

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

3. After the narrator drops Gin off at her building on the night of the incident at the beach, why does she run back outside and call after him?
(a) She needs to get her blanket back from him.
(b) She want to know if he is going to tell anyone what happened.
(c) She wants to tell him that she loves him.
(d) She wants to know if he needs an umbrella.

4. 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?
(a) Gin's grandmother's house.
(b) The narrator's best friend's house.
(c) The balcony of the Clark Theater.
(d) A party in the outer suburbs.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator see on the street when he is leaving Gin's building on the night of the beach incident?

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

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

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

5. On page 234, which of the following terms does the narrator use to describe the sunset?

(see the answer key)

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