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Read the passage After Twenty Years, and then answer the following question(s).What happened to Bob out West?

Read the passage Madame Célestin’s Divorce, and then answer the following question(s).What effect does Madame Célestin’s meeting with the bishop have on her?

Read the passage Madame Célestin’s Divorce, and then answer the following question(s).How many children does Madame Célestin have?

Read the passage Origins of Western Theater, and then answer the following question(s).What change in the chorus was most significant in the development of Western theater?

Read the passage Spanglish, and then answer the following question(s).What does the author use to support her explanation of what Spanglish is?

Read the passage Roughing It, and then answer the following question(s).Why does everyone the narrator loans his horse to always walk back?

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).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 Madame Célestin’s Divorce, and then answer the following question(s).What is Lawyer Paxton’s point of view about Madame Célestin?