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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 Bob do while he waits for Jimmy?
2. What causes Jimmy to comment that Bob seems to have become a success in the West?
3. On page 621, how does the reader learn that the first police officer was actually Jimmy?
4. What does Bob's nickname turn out to be?
5. How far does Bob say he traveled in order to meet with Jimmy?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the significance of the similarities and differences in the ways that Bob's and the plainclothes officer's faces are revealed?
2. Why does Bob guess that Jimmy might not be as much of a success as Bob himself has become?
3. What is ironic about the way that Bob describes his old friend to the "policeman" he encounters?
4. 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?
5. What does the note from Jimmy explain to Bob?
6. How is Bob characterized by the accessories that he carries?
7. How did Bob and Jimmy know one another, 20 years ago?
8. What causes Bob to finally realize that the plainclothes officer is not Jimmy Wells?
9. 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?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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