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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Gift of the Magi".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jim's middle name?
(a) Williams.
(b) Dillingham.
(c) Montpierre.
(d) DeLemonds.

2. On whose point of view is the narrative focused in "The Gift of the Magi"?
(a) On Jim's point of view.
(b) On Madame Sofronie's point of view.
(c) On Della's point of view.
(d) On Jim's father's point of view.

3. The narrator says in the beginning of "The Gift of the Magi" that Della knows that her hair is more beautiful than what?
(a) A flower in the meadow.
(b) A field of fresh-fallen snow.
(c) A queen's jewels and gifts.
(d) A mountain looking over a lake.

4. What is Jim and Della's last name?
(a) Jackson.
(b) Small.
(c) Smith.
(d) Young.

5. What does the narrator say Jim needs in "The Gift of the Magi"?
(a) A pair of socks.
(b) A rifle.
(c) A new coat.
(d) A pair of new pants.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the most significant symbols in "The Gift of the Magi"?

2. How long is Della's hair described in the beginning of "The Gift of the Magi"?

3. When Della lets down her hair in the beginning of "The Gift of the Magi" it is said to almost create what?

4. Della considers what Jim will think of her cut hair and she imagines that if he does not kill her, he will say she looks like what in "The Gift of the Magi"?

5. The gifts that Della and Jim are revealed to have bought for one another are an example of what literary device?

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