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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 significance of Jimmy knowing how long ago the restaurant closed?
(a) It characterizes him as an observant police officer.
(b) It creates dramatic irony.
(c) It confirms Bob's characterization of him as a lover of New York City.
(d) It foreshadows his identity.

2. Where does the plainclothes officer pretending to be Jimmy tell Bob that he works?
(a) He is a police officer.
(b) He is in business downtown.
(c) He owns a nearby restaurant.
(d) He works for the city of New York.

3. The police officer's is described as "stalwart" (619). What kind of man does this mean he is?
(a) Ignorant, slow, animalistic.
(b) Strong, sturdy, brave.
(c) Handsome, eye-catching.
(d) Stubborn, opinionated.

4. What effect does the officer tell Bob that time can have?
(a) It can make a person realize what is really important.
(b) It can change a good man into a bad man.
(c) It can give a man something new to be loyal to.
(d) It can gradually erase the feeling of friendship.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What distinguishing feature does Bob have on his face?

2. What does the plainclothes officer hand to Bob?

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

4. At the end of the story, what motive for his deception does Jimmy reveal?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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