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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 finally reveals the plainclothes officer's face?
(a) The flame from a match.
(b) A streetlight.
(c) The light from an open business.
(d) The headlights of an approaching police car.

2. What causes the few pedestrians around to hurry "dismally" past Bob (621)?
(a) The weather has gotten worse.
(b) Bob's obvious wealth.
(c) It is almost time for the last businesses to close.
(d) Bob is a suspicious-seeming person.

3. What kind of street is a "pacific thoroughfare" (619)?
(a) Ominous.
(b) Crowded.
(c) Wet.
(d) Peaceful.

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

5. How does the plainclothes officer get Bob to walk with him?
(a) He arrests him.
(b) He says that he lives nearby and they can go have a drink at his apartment.
(c) He shows him the note from Jimmy.
(d) He tells him they will go somewhere close by and talk about old times.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Bob leave New York?

2. What duty is the police officer performing in the opening of the story?

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

4. What does Bob do while he waits for Jimmy?

5. Bob's eyes are described as "keen" (620). What does this description of his eyes communicate about his character?

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