Retrieved Reformation Comp Check

Who is the protagonist of the story?

• Jimmy Valentine, a retired, jailed mobster who gets out of jail for good behavior

• the warden of a prison that holds thieves and murderers

• Jimmy Valentine, a pardoned safe-breaker and thief getting out of jail.

• a thief named Jimmy Valentine and the warden that tries to mentor him

When Jimmy Valentine gets out of jail he…

• decides to start working for a group of bank robbers.

• gets a job as a traveling salesman for a food company.

• retrieves his safe-cracking kit and goes back to thievery.

• sells his old thief-cracking kit, and then gets framed for new robberies.

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How do authorities respond to the new robberies?

• They arrest Jimmy immediately because they know that he’s the one cracking the safes.

• They suspect that Jimmy is the one committing the robberies and begin to investigate.

• They think that Jimmy Valentine has a copy-cat who is copying his robbery style.

• They are puzzled by the robberies because they think Jimmy is still in jail.

What happens to Jimmy Valentine in Elmore?

• He decides to con a pretty girl into marrying him because her father owns the bank and changes his name.

• He opens a shoe business under a fake name in order to hide away money stolen from bank robberies.

• He falls in love with a girl and takes on a new identity, opening a respectable legal business to support them.

• He falls in love with a girl but her father does not trust Jimmy, knowing him for a thief.

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What does Jimmy plan to do after meeting Ms. Annabel Adams, and why?

• go back to cracking safes because he’s bored in Elmore

• train a student in how to crack safes so his legacy can live on

• throw away his old safe-cracking kit so he won’t be tempted by his old life

• give a friend his old safe-cracking kit because he’s giving up his life of committing crimes

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What does Ben Price do a year after Jimmy’s disappearance?

• He tracks Jimmy down to Elmore through his letter and arrests him.

• He gives up the detective business and retires to Elmore.

• He tracks Jimmy down to Elmore through his letter and observes the criminal in his new identity.

• He decides to visit the Adams bank to see the new vault, thinking Jimmy might try to rob it.

What happens at the bank?

• Jimmy becomes obsessed with the new safe and betrays his true identity.

• Jimmy’s future niece gets locked in a brand new, secure safe.

• A child shuts herself in the safe because she’s mad at her mother.

• Jimmy pays some kids to get stuck in a safe so that he can try to crack it.

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What does Jimmy decide to do?

• He decides to crack the safe and beg the Adams family to forgive him for lying.

• He decides to crack the safe and when done, leaves without an explanation.

• He tries to crack the safe but does not succeed and fails to explain himself.

• He cracks the safe but this so horrifies the Adams that he then leaves.

How do Jimmy and Ben Price react to seeing one another?

• Ben tries to arrest Jimmy, who convinces the officer to let him go free.

• Ben arrests Jimmy for theft and for impersonating someone else.

• Jimmy agrees to go with Ben to jail, but Ben pretends not to know him.

• Ben thinks that Ralph cannot be Jimmy, because Jimmy wouldn’t have helped others.