A Retrieved Reformation

What advice did the warden give Jimmy Valentine in the beginning of the story?

• Get married and settle down.

• Go back to school for an education.

• Find a new profession to follow.

• Look up his family and apologize.

What changed Jimmy Valentine into Ralph Spencer?

• he looked into the eyes of Annabel Adams

• he opened his own shoe buisness

• he was introduced to Miss Polly Simpson

• he registered at the Planters' Hotel

According to the author, Ralph Spencer switched back to be Jimmy Valentine when he...

• opened up his special suitcase.

• unlocked the bank's safe door.

• rescued frightened little Agatha.

• threw off his coat and pulled up his shirt sleeves.

What did Jimmy mean when he said, "Well, let's go I don't know that it makes much difference, now?"

• Go ahead arrest me and take me back to jail.

• Let's go home and forget this ever happened.

• Perhaps I should keep my tools after all.

• Come on, Annabel, we have a buggy to catch.

Select the statement that Best shows Jimmy's sincere attempt to change.

• I want you to wind up some

  little matters for me.

• After I get married I'm going to sell out and go West, where there won't be so much danger of having old scores brought up against me.

• I

  wouldn't touch a dollar of another man's money now for a million.

• I'll bring along the tools with me.

Ben Price walked away from Jimmy at the end of the story because he...

• was getting the police.

• was not sure if it really was Jimmy.

• knew that Jimmy was a changed man.

• suspected that he did not have enough evidence.

"Hardly believing that she heard him aright, she unpinned the bud from the bosom of her dress, and placed it in his hand. Jimmy stuffed it into his vest-pocket, threw off his coat and pulled up his shirt-sleeves. With that act Ralph D. Spencer passed away and Jimmy Valentine took his place." The title of the story is, "A Retrieved Reformation". Choose the statement that best reflects the underlined sentence (red).

• Jimmy throws his reformation away to save the girl.

• Jimmy retrieves his reformation by choosing to tell Annabel who he is.

• Jimmy reforms for the first time to save the girl's life.

• Jimmy retrieve's his reformation by no longer pretending to be Ralph Spencer.

What is Jimmy doing when we are first introduced to him in the story?

• Working intently on shoes in the prison shoe shop.

• Working carelessly on shoes in the prison shoe shop.

• Leaving prison with a Governor's pardon.

• Speaking with the warden about his crimes.

"Jimmy took it in a tired kind of way. He had served nearly ten months of a four year sentence. He had expected to stay only about three months, at the longest. When a man with as many friends on the outside as Jimmy Valentine had is received in the "stir" it is hardly worth while to cut his hair." Which statement best summarizes this excerpt?

• Jimmy had already served 10 months and didn't feel that he could last much longer in prison.

• All of Jimmy's friends were not in prison and he was planning to "break out".

• Because Jimmy was innocent, he would be leaving soon once his friends testified for him.

• Jimmy was disappointed that he had to serve 10 months considering all the "important" friends he had, however, he still served just a short time.

Which statement BEST illustrates the IRONY of this excerpt?

• The State expected Jimmy to turn the 5 dollars into a prosperous business.

• Jimmy had no where to go with the railroad ticket.

• The State expected Jimmy to use bad clothes and 5 dollars to reform from a thief that steals thousands of dollars.

• Jimmy has already rehabilitated and does not the clothes and money.