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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. In section "V," who comes to visit Mary?
2. What does Mary conclude she needs to do in order to see the ghost?
3. Where is Mary and Ned's house located?
4. 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)?
5. While she is thinking it over in the library, where does Mary finally decide the blame lies for Ned's distracted, anxious mood?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do Mary and Ned plan to do with their time at Lyng?
2. What draws the Boynes to England?
3. What horrifying chain of events does Mary understand once she sees Bob Elwell's picture?
4. On the day of his disappearance, what is so frustrating for Mary about her conversation with her staff about where Ned is?
5. What strange conclusion does Mary come to about the relationship of the ghost to the house, Lyng?
6. How does the narrator describe the life that the Boynes had in America?
7. What does Mary remember happening earlier in the day in October when she and Ned first climbed Meldon Steep?
8. How has Ned's mood changed on the morning after he and Mary first discussed the Blue Star lawsuit, and what does Mary believe changed his mood?
9. What does Alida Stair tell the Boynes about Lyng?
10. After she finds out that he has gone out with the mysterious man and not yet returned, why is Mary immediately alarmed?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that explores "Afterward" as entertainment; make and defend a claim about whether the story succeeds as a disturbing "haunted house" tale. Offer specific textual support for your ideas.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about "Afterward" as an example of American Realism. Offer textual evidence for your arguments and be sure to cite outside sources in MLA format.
Essay Topic 3
Mary looks across the property at her home and sees it "drenched in the pale gold moisture of the air" (89). This kind of diction clearly sends a message about Lyng, and Wharton's work is full of examples of this sort of thoughtful language. Choose a single aspect of the story--a person, a setting, an event, etc.--and analyze how Wharton's word choices contribute to the reader's understanding. Offer quoted textual examples to support your claims.
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