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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 causes the officer to suddenly slow down?
(a) One of the businesses has an unlocked door.
(b) He sees a wanted criminal.
(c) The streetlight has gone out.
(d) He sees Bob.

2. In his explanation of what has happened, what is the first thing that Jimmy wants to be sure Bob knows?
(a) He has no sympathy for criminals.
(b) He still considers Bob his best friend.
(c) He truly struggled with the decision to turn Bob in.
(d) He showed up for their meeting on time.

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

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

5. What can logically be inferred about Bob and Jimmy's friendship?
(a) It began when they were quite young.
(b) It meant more to Bob than to Jimmy.
(c) They met in college.
(d) They are related by blood.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What causes Bob to realize that the plainclothes officer is not Jimmy?

3. What is the most likely reason that Bob does not recognize Jimmy when they are talking?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the note from Jimmy explain to Bob?

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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