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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 the officer to suddenly slow down?
2. What causes Jimmy to comment that Bob seems to have become a success in the West?
3. Why are there so few people on the streets?
4. At what time of night are Bob and Jimmy supposed to meet?
5. How did the police discover that Bob was in New York?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the story's opening moments, including its setting.
2. 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?
3. What is appropriate about the plainclothes officer greeting Bob with the line "It's Bob, sure as fate" (621)?
4. What does the note from Jimmy explain to Bob?
5. What is the significance of the similarities and differences in the ways that Bob's and the plainclothes officer's faces are revealed?
6. What causes Bob to finally realize that the plainclothes officer is not Jimmy Wells?
7. How does the introduction of Bob's character contrast with the introduction of Jimmy's character?
8. 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?
9. What is ironic about the way that Bob describes his old friend to the "policeman" he encounters?
10. In the story's beginning, what evidence is there that Jimmy takes pride in his job?
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 beliefs about friendship and loyalty conveyed by "After Twenty Years." Use textual evidence to support your ideas.
Essay Topic 2
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 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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