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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 causes Jimmy to comment that Bob seems to have become a success in the West?
2. On page 621, how does the reader learn that the first police officer was actually Jimmy?
3. According to Bob, why did Jimmy stay in New York?
4. How did the police discover that Bob was in New York?
5. What is the only reason that Bob can imagine Jimmy not showing up?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the note from Jimmy explain to Bob?
2. What is amusing about the plainclothes officer's answer to Bob's question about whether he is doing well in New York?
3. Why does Bob guess that Jimmy might not be as much of a success as Bob himself has become?
4. What causes Bob to finally realize that the plainclothes officer is not Jimmy Wells?
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. Why does Jimmy, in his role as the police officer, ask Bob if he is going to keep waiting for his friend to show up?
7. What is ironic about the way that Bob describes his old friend to the "policeman" he encounters?
8. What is appropriate about the plainclothes officer greeting Bob with the line "It's Bob, sure as fate" (621)?
9. What is the effect of the passage depicting Bob continuing to wait in the doorway as it begins to rain?
10. What is the significance of the similarities and differences in the ways that Bob's and the plainclothes officer's faces are revealed?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the use of physical objects to convey character in "After Twenty Years." Support your claims with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the beliefs about friendship and loyalty conveyed by "After Twenty Years." Use textual evidence to support your ideas.
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