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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 story's opening, what details are related to the passage of time?
2. Gin mentions her "nonna's cottage" (240). Whose cottage is this?
3. To what British author does the narrator ironically compare himself near the end of the story?
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?
5. What is the rhetorical purpose of the anaphora in the narrator's description of the Gold Coast residents having sex?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Gin dream about a baby in the water, and what does she believe her dream means?
2. What scenario does Gin keep thinking about after the night on Oak Street Beach?
3. What is the rhetorical purpose of including the narrator's loss of the condom right before the drowned woman's body is discovered?
4. 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?
5. 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)?
6. What is the rhetorical purpose of the narrator's comments about the "bloodless way in which a young man discards his own virginity" (235)?
7. 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)?
8. 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?
9. 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?
10. What is the inclusion of details about the House of Dong intended to convey?
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 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 2
Write an essay that evaluates the narrator's ability to negotiate for what he wants in "We Didn't." How do his age, personality, and circumstances both benefit and hinder him as he tries to negotiate with Gin both before and after the beach scene? Use textual evidence to support your claims.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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