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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 does Mary suddenly remember finding one day in October?
2. For how many years did Ned and Mary live in the American Midwest while Ned worked as an engineer?
3. On that evening in the library in section "II," what does Mary see has happened when she looks up from preparing the tea?
4. When they are all laughing about the idea of a ghost, what does it mean that Mary "noted a certain flatness of tone in Alida's answering hilarity" (83)?
5. Why does Mary believe that people should not talk about seeing ghosts?
Short Essay Questions
1. On the day of his disappearance, what is so frustrating for Mary about her conversation with her staff about where Ned is?
2. What do Mary and Ned plan to do with their time at Lyng?
3. Why does Parvis come to see Mary near the end of the story?
4. What news does Mary learn from a newspaper clipping that someone sends her in the mail, and why is she so upset by it?
5. After she finds out that he has gone out with the mysterious man and not yet returned, why is Mary immediately alarmed?
6. What does Ned tell Mary about the Blue Star lawsuit?
7. What does Alida Stair tell the Boynes about Lyng?
8. What does Mary remember happening earlier in the day in October when she and Ned first climbed Meldon Steep?
9. What is Mary doing on the morning that Ned disappears?
10. What happens with the mysterious visitor on the day that Ned disappears?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that explores the narrative voice of "Afterward" and takes a position on how this narrative voice contributes to the story's overall effect. Be sure to give specific textual evidence for your position.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the purpose of the story's structure. Why does it begin with the moment that it begins with? How are flashbacks used, and why? What periods of time are narrated in detail, and which are compressed, and why? Offer textual evidence for your claims.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that examines the issue of unearned privilege in "Afterward." How far does the story go in its critique of Mary and Ned's lifestyle? Might it have gone further? You may choose to also use evidence about Wharton's own life, depending on the scope of your thesis; if you do so, be sure to cite your sources in MLA format.
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