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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. What reason does the waiting man give the police officer for his presence?
2. What kind of street is a "pacific thoroughfare" (619)?
3. On page 621, how does the plainclothes officer refer to his meeting with Bob?
4. Which element of the physical description of the plainclothes officer functions as foreshadowing?
5. What does the narrator mean by the description of the police officer's impressiveness as "habitual and not for show"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Bob guess that Jimmy might not be as much of a success as Bob himself has become?
2. What does the note from Jimmy explain to Bob?
3. How is Bob characterized by the accessories that he carries?
4. How did Bob and Jimmy know one another, 20 years ago?
5. When the plainclothes officer tells Bob "We'll go around to a place I know of, and have a good long talk about old times," (621), what does he mean, and what does Bob likely think he means?
6. What is appropriate about the plainclothes officer greeting Bob with the line "It's Bob, sure as fate" (621)?
7. What is the significance of the similarities and differences in the ways that Bob's and the plainclothes officer's faces are revealed?
8. What were the circumstances of the agreement Jimmy and Bob made 20 years ago?
9. What is ironic about the way that Bob describes his old friend to the "policeman" he encounters?
10. How does the introduction of Bob's character contrast with the introduction of Jimmy's character?
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 about the thematic motifs of materialism and greed in "After Twenty Years." Support your ideas with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay in which you analyze the strategy of including the plainclothes officer in the story "After Twenty Years." How does this character introduce misdirection into the story and why is this necessary? How does this character increase or decrease the moral authority of Jimmy's choices? Use textual evidence to support your claims.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that analyzes O. Henry's use of wit in "After Twenty Years." Be sure that you understand the literary definition of "wit" and that you clearly tie O. Henry's use of wit to his goals as a writer in this story. Support your claims with quoted textual evidence.
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