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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "After Twenty Years".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say causes Bob to tell officer about his career in the West?
(a) The officer asks him about it.
(b) His suspicions about the officer's identity.
(c) He is trying to fill an awkward silence.
(d) His ego.

2. What can logically be inferred about Jimmy's question about whether Bob and Jimmy kept in touch?
(a) He wants to know if Bob realizes that he deliberately stopped writing to him.
(b) He does not remember when the last time he heard from Bob was.
(c) He is unsure if the man he is talking to really is his old friend.
(d) He wonders why Bob stopped writing to him.

3. Before Jimmy leaves Bob, what question does he ask him?
(a) He asks whether Bob ever spent time in Chicago.
(b) He asks if Bob still considers Jimmy his best friend.
(c) He asks Bob to tell him exactly how he made his money.
(d) He asks whether Bob is going to keep waiting for Jimmy.

4. What is logical to infer about the officer asking about Bob's identity "doubtfully" (621)?
(a) He wants to seem like he is not already sure of Bob's identity.
(b) He is an insecure and hesitant person.
(c) He is not sure that he and Jimmy are doing the right thing.
(d) He does not fully trust Jimmy Wells.

5. On page 621, Bob uses the slang word "bully." What does this word mean in the context of the story?
(a) Someone who uses force to get their way.
(b) A great person, usually a male friend.
(c) Excellent, wonderful.
(d) Someone cruel and threatening.

Short Answer Questions

1. What finally reveals the plainclothes officer's face?

2. What causes Jimmy to comment that Bob seems to have become a success in the West?

3. What causes Bob to realize that the plainclothes officer is not Jimmy?

4. The narrator says, on page 619, that something has "well nigh depeopled the streets." In this context, what does the phrase "well nigh" mean?

5. What aspect of his success does Bob take particular pride in?

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