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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 the name of the restaurant that used to be in the spot where the man is waiting?
(a) Bill Broozy's.
(b) Bill Diamond's.
(c) "Diamond Jim" Brady's.
(d) "Big Joe" Brady's.

2. What duty is the police officer performing in the opening of the story?
(a) Enforcing the city's curfew.
(b) Enforcing the city's noise ordinance.
(c) Searching for a wanted criminal.
(d) Checking doors to make sure they are locked.

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

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

5. What regret does the plainclothes officer express while he is pretending to be Jimmy?
(a) That the restaurant is closed.
(b) That he did not accompany Bob out West.
(c) That he and Bob lost track of one another.
(d) That he does not have a long time to talk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is logical to infer about the officer asking about Bob's identity "doubtfully" (621)?

2. What causes the officer to suddenly slow down?

3. What is a logical inference based on the way the officer is twirling his baton?

4. How many years separate Bob and Jimmy?

5. At what time of night are Bob and Jimmy supposed to meet?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Bob characterized by the accessories that he carries?

2. 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?

3. Describe the story's opening moments, including its setting.

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

5. What causes Bob to finally realize that the plainclothes officer is not Jimmy Wells?

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

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. How did Bob and Jimmy know one another, 20 years ago?

9. What were the circumstances of the agreement Jimmy and Bob made 20 years ago?

10. 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?

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