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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Gift of the Magi".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Della's coat described?
(a) Old and gray.
(b) Navy blue and new.
(c) Old and brown.
(d) New and red.

2. What aspect of the plot structure in "The Gift of the Magi" is one for which O. Henry was famous?
(a) The flashbacks.
(b) The twist-ending.
(c) The nonlinear narrative.
(d) The flash-forwards.

3. Where did Jim obtain his gold watch?
(a) From his brother.
(b) From his wife.
(c) From his mother.
(d) From his father.

4. What is the most likely setting of "The Gift of the Magi"?
(a) Panama City.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) New York City.
(d) Rural Nebraska.

5. Della considers what Jim will think of her cut hair and she imagines that if he does not kill her, he will say she looks like what in "The Gift of the Magi"?
(a) A girl who sings and dances for money.
(b) A little girl.
(c) A girl who works in a library.
(d) A girl who prostitutes herself for money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the magi bring to the baby Jesus in the Bible?

2. To what is Della's hair compared when she lets it down in the beginning of "The Gift of the Magi"?

3. On whose point of view is the narrative focused in "The Gift of the Magi"?

4. The gifts that Della and Jim are revealed to have bought for one another are an example of what literary device?

5. How much is Jim's income now, according to the author in the opening of "The Gift of the Magi"?

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