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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 effect does the officer tell Bob that time can have?
(a) It can gradually erase the feeling of friendship.
(b) It can give a man something new to be loyal to.
(c) It can change a good man into a bad man.
(d) It can make a person realize what is really important.

2. The police officer's is described as "stalwart" (619). What kind of man does this mean he is?
(a) Strong, sturdy, brave.
(b) Handsome, eye-catching.
(c) Stubborn, opinionated.
(d) Ignorant, slow, animalistic.

3. What is it reasonable to infer is the officer's motive in listening to Bob "with interest" (621)?
(a) The officer is pretending to be Jimmy.
(b) Bob is an interesting speaker.
(c) Bob might reveal evidence.
(d) The officer is a curious person.

4. What does the narrator mean by the description of the police officer's impressiveness as "habitual and not for show"?
(a) The police officer knows that people are watching him.
(b) The police officer is not trying to show off.
(c) The police officer is stuck in a rut and always does things the same way.
(d) The police officer is a humble and modest person.

5. Why are there so few people on the streets?
(a) There are no open businesses nearby.
(b) It is very late.
(c) The weather is unpleasant.
(d) There is a curfew.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes the few pedestrians around to hurry "dismally" past Bob (621)?

2. What is the name of the restaurant that used to be in the spot where the man is waiting?

3. What is the clearest purpose of describing the plainclothes officer as "submerged in his overcoat" (621)?

4. Which element of the physical description of the plainclothes officer functions as foreshadowing?

5. Why have the two men set this particular meeting time?

(see the answer key)

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