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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. To what does the narrator compare Gin's mother's rosary?
2. What detail on page 233 reveals that some time has passed since the events of the story took place?
3. What is the narrator's tone when he recalls, "I was trying to calm your terror with reassuring phrases such as 'Holy shit! I don’t fucking believe this!'” (236)?
4. Which detail of the narrator's description of their kisses indicates the passage of time?
5. On page 243, there is a reference to "Casanova." Why is this historical figure mentioned?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the rhetorical purpose of the narrator's comments about the "bloodless way in which a young man discards his own virginity" (235)?
2. What do the first paragraph's details about the father's car convey about the family's social class?
3. What is foreshadowed by the page 233 description of their "lover's lane"?
4. How is the From Here to Eternity love scene evoked ironically when the narrator and Gin are on the beach?
5. 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)?
6. What scenario does Gin keep thinking about after the night on Oak Street Beach?
7. On the night in the lover's lane toward the end of the story, what does the narrator realize about his relationship with Gin?
8. What plot events--one immediate and one later--are foreshadowed by the narrator's description of "the bodies of lovers...visible in lightning flashes, scattered like the fallen on a battlefield" (234)?
9. What does Gin dream about a baby in the water, and what does she believe her dream means?
10. Explain the relationship of the story's title to the Amichai poem excerpt used as an epigraph.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay in which you choose two passages from the story (of a paragraph or longer) and compare and contrast their syntax. Use this comparison and contrast to make a claim about how Dybek uses different patterns of syntax to accomplish different goals. Be sure to support your assertions with quoted textual evidence and to use precise literary terminology to label the techniques under discussion.
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about Dybek's use of catalogs in "We Didn't." Be sure to support your ideas with evidence from the text.
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