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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 Jimmy notice about Bob's pocket watch?
2. What aspect of his success does Bob take particular pride in?
3. What duty is the police officer performing in the opening of the story?
4. What can logically be inferred about Jimmy's question about whether Bob and Jimmy kept in touch?
5. What does Bob mean when he describes Jimmy as a "plodder" (620)?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the introduction of Bob's character contrast with the introduction of Jimmy's character?
2. What is appropriate about the plainclothes officer greeting Bob with the line "It's Bob, sure as fate" (621)?
3. In the story's beginning, what evidence is there that Jimmy takes pride in his job?
4. What is the effect of the passage depicting Bob continuing to wait in the doorway as it begins to rain?
5. How did Bob and Jimmy know one another, 20 years ago?
6. What is the significance of the similarities and differences in the ways that Bob's and the plainclothes officer's faces are revealed?
7. What surprises Bob about the appearance of the man that he thinks is his old friend, and how does the man explain away Bob's doubts?
8. Describe the story's opening moments, including its setting.
9. What were the circumstances of the agreement Jimmy and Bob made 20 years ago?
10. What causes Bob to finally realize that the plainclothes officer is not Jimmy Wells?
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 that uses psychological research to defend a thesis about environment and morality. Be sure to cite your sources in MLA format.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the role of setting in "After Twenty Years." Use textual evidence to support your arguments.
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