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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 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 might reveal evidence.
(c) Bob is an interesting speaker.
(d) The officer is a curious person.

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

3. At the end of the story, what motive for his deception does Jimmy reveal?
(a) He could not face being the one to actually arrest Bob.
(b) He wanted time to think about what the right thing to do was.
(c) He needed time to check the picture on the "Wanted" poster.
(d) He was embarrassed for Bob to know that he is now a police officer.

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

5. Why did Bob leave New York?
(a) He fell in love with a girl from Chicago.
(b) He hoped to make money in the West.
(c) He and Jimmy got into a fight.
(d) He was wanted by the police.

Short Answer Questions

1. On page 621, how does the plainclothes officer refer to his meeting with Bob?

2. What does the narrator mean by the description of the police officer's impressiveness as "habitual and not for show"?

3. On page 621, how does the reader learn that the first police officer was actually Jimmy?

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

5. Why are there so few people on the streets?

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