Read the passage After Twenty Years, and then answer the following question(s).O. Henry’s stories often have a surprise ending that changes your view of the entire story. What is the surprise ending in this story?

Read the passage Roughing It, and then answer the following question(s).Read this sentence from the first paragraph of the story.I had quickly learned to tell a horse from a cow, and was full of anxiety to learn more.The author places this sentence at the beginning of the story to show that ____.

Read the passage Roughing It, and then answer the following question(s).How did Twain’s experience growing up in a small town in the early 1800’s influence his choice of characters in this short story?

Read the passage Roughing It, and then answer the following question(s).Read the following sentence.I believe I never appreciated, till then, the poverty of the human machinery—for I still needed a hand or two to place elsewhere.What does the narrator mean by the phrase the poverty of the human machinery?

Read the passage Spanglish, and then answer the following question(s).Why has Spanglish become so popular?

Read the passage After Twenty Years, and then answer the following question(s).Why does the policeman leave?

Read the passage Roughing It, and then answer the following question(s).What theme in this story about a small town could still apply today no matter where a person lives?

Read the passage Madame Célestin’s Divorce, and then answer the following question(s).Read the following sentence from the story.“Not a picayune, not one, not one, have I lay my eyes on in the pas’ fo’ months that I can say Célestin give it to me or sen’ it to me.”What is the meaning of the word picayune?

Read the passage Origins of Western Theater, and then answer the following question(s).What was the greatest similarity between a trilogy of tragic plays and the satyr play that followed?

Read the passage Madame Célestin’s Divorce, and then answer the following question(s).Kate Chopin, who wrote during the late 1800s, is known for her feminist writing.How does the author use dialogue to express the theme that women are trapped in their lives by society’s rigid rules and expectations?