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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "Afterward".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Mary first realize that Ned is missing?
(a) When the boiler repairman asks to speak with him.
(b) When the stranger reappears and asks for him again.
(c) When Trimmle comes in to ask her whether she has seen Ned.
(d) When she tries to find him to tell him that lunch is ready.

2. Why does Mary have a hard time seeing the details of the man's appearance on that day in October?
(a) Ned quickly moves to block her view.
(b) The sun is behind the man.
(c) Her eyesight is not very good.
(d) The man is deliberately keeping himself in the shadows.

3. Who is the author of "Afterward"?
(a) Shirley Jackson.
(b) Edith Wharton.
(c) O. Henry.
(d) Henry James.

4. In section "V," who comes to visit Mary?
(a) Bob Elwell's widow.
(b) Parvis.
(c) Alida.
(d) Hugo.

5. What detail does the narrator relate as evidence of how much Ned and Mary have yearned for a life like the one they have in England?
(a) They were discussing a move to England even before they got married.
(b) They had already pre-planned every detail of how they would spend their days.
(c) They made an agreement with one another that they would do "anything" it took to make their dream come true.
(d) They had a map of England pinned over their kitchen table at their old house in America.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator say that Ned and Mary are "two romantic Americans" (83)?

2. What does Mary learn from the contents of the envelope?

3. When they are all laughing about the idea of a ghost, what does it mean that Mary "noted a certain flatness of tone in Alida's answering hilarity" (83)?

4. For how many years did Ned and Mary live in the American Midwest while Ned worked as an engineer?

5. According to Alida, what is unusual about the ghost at Ned and Mary's new house?

(see the answer key)

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