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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 does not fully trust Jimmy Wells.
(c) He is not sure that he and Jimmy are doing the right thing.
(d) He is an insecure and hesitant person.

2. According to Bob, why did Jimmy stay in New York?
(a) He loved New York too much to leave it.
(b) He was scared to move somewhere unknown.
(c) He had a very limited imagination.
(d) He did not want to leave his family behind.

3. How far does Bob say he traveled in order to meet with Jimmy?
(a) 500 miles.
(b) 200 miles.
(c) 1,000 miles.
(d) 2,000 miles.

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?
(a) Come very close to.
(b) Completely.
(c) Slowly.
(d) Tried and failed to.

5. Why are so few businesses open on the street where the officer is?
(a) The city curfew means there are few customers.
(b) It is past midnight.
(c) The businesses keep early hours.
(d) The area is very poor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bob mean when he describes Jimmy as a "plodder" (620)?

2. How long does Bob wait for Jimmy after he speaks with the police officer?

3. What reason does the waiting man give the police officer for his presence?

4. What can logically be inferred about Jimmy's question about whether Bob and Jimmy kept in touch?

5. What kind of street is a "pacific thoroughfare" (619)?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Bob guess that Jimmy might not be as much of a success as Bob himself has become?

2. How does the introduction of Bob's character contrast with the introduction of Jimmy's character?

3. What is appropriate about the plainclothes officer greeting Bob with the line "It's Bob, sure as fate" (621)?

4. Why does Jimmy, in his role as the police officer, ask Bob if he is going to keep waiting for his friend to show up?

5. What is the effect of the passage depicting Bob continuing to wait in the doorway as it begins to rain?

6. What surprises Bob about the appearance of the man that he thinks is his old friend, and how does the man explain away Bob's doubts?

7. What is the significance of the similarities and differences in the ways that Bob's and the plainclothes officer's faces are revealed?

8. What is ironic about the way that Bob describes his old friend to the "policeman" he encounters?

9. What is amusing about the plainclothes officer's answer to Bob's question about whether he is doing well in New York?

10. When the plainclothes officer tells Bob "We'll go around to a place I know of, and have a good long talk about old times," (621), what does he mean, and what does Bob likely think he means?

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