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 was in Jimmy's heavy suitcase?

• nickel plated shoe horns

• samples of Jimmy's shoes

• gold and silver coins

• Jimmy's safe cracking tools

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.

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.

What does Jimmy do in prison that helps him prepare for life when he goes "straight"?

• He gets a new suit and clothes. 
• He works in the prison shoe shop. 
• He makes friends with the warden. 

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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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 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 was the setting in the beginning of the story?

• Train Station

• Mike Dolan's place

• Prison

• Bank

Who is the protagonist of the story?

• Annabelle Adams, the banker's daughter.

• The warden of a prison that holds thieves and murderers

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

• Ben Price, a detective looking for an ex-con.