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Section 1: "After Twenty Years"

1. Who is the author of "After Twenty Years"?
(a) Katherine Anne Porter.
(b) Henry James.
(c) O. Henry.
(d) Edith Wharton.

2. What does the narrator mean by the description of the police officer's impressiveness as "habitual and not for show"?
(a) The police officer is not trying to show off.
(b) The police officer is stuck in a rut and always does things the same way.
(c) The police officer is a humble and modest person.
(d) The police officer knows that people are watching him.

3. Why are there so few people on the streets?
(a) It is very late.
(b) There is a curfew.
(c) The weather is unpleasant.
(d) There are no open businesses nearby.

4. The narrator says, on page 619, that something has "well nigh depeopled the streets." In this context, what does the phrase "well nigh" mean?
(a) Completely.
(b) Slowly.
(c) Come very close to.
(d) Tried and failed to.

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