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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. When Ned is still gone by the time Mary finishes lunch, where does she decide he must be?
2. In Mary's mind, what is the only possible source of information about what has happened to Ned?
3. When Mary searches Ned's desk, to whom does she find he has been writing?
4. When Mary thinks back on the October visit from the mysterious man, she thinks that it "had no mark of the portentous" (86). What does this mean she felt about the visit at the time that it happened?
5. What is the only descriptive detail that the maid is able to give Mary about the stranger's appearance?
Short Essay Questions
1. What strange conclusion does Mary come to about the relationship of the ghost to the house, Lyng?
2. 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?
3. What does Mary remember happening earlier in the day in October when she and Ned first climbed Meldon Steep?
4. What do the Boynes tell Alida Stair about why Lyng's drawbacks are not problems from their point of view?
5. In the narrative present at the beginning of the story, where is Mary and what is she doing?
6. Describe the emotional condition that Mary is in in section "IV" of the story.
7. What news does Mary learn from a newspaper clipping that someone sends her in the mail, and why is she so upset by it?
8. What draws the Boynes to England?
9. What does Alida Stair tell the Boynes about Lyng?
10. How does the narrator describe the life that the Boynes had in America?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the meaning of the expression a "hothouse flower"? Look up this term and then write an essay that explores the meaning of the way Mary spends her time on the day of Ned's disappearance. Be sure to offer textual support for your claims.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the appropriateness of Dorset as a setting for "Afterward." Use textual support in your defense, and be sure to cite any outside sources in MLA format.
Essay Topic 3
No one in the story is explicit about what happened during the Blue Star Mine scandal, although Parvis does explain in general terms how Ned cheated Bob Elwell. Write an essay that takes and defends a position about why this is. What does the story gain by being vague about the exact sequence of events, and what would it lose by taking up more space explaining what happened? Offer specific textual evidence to support your claims.
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