WorksheetsA Retrieved Reformation
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
How long has Jimmy been in prison?
4 years
10 months
2 years
4 months
How many safecracking jobs does Jimmy carry out after his release?
None
Two
Five
Three
How does Jimmy respond to his release notice?
He takes it in a tired kind of way.
He takes it with hope.
He takes it with a glee.
None of the options given.
Why did Jimmy expect to be freed from prison sooner?
He was retried and found not guilty.
He was innocent.
He had friends on the outside who can get him out.
How does Jimmy act toward the warden?
He is hateful.
He pretends to be virtuous and innocent.
Shows pride in his safecracking skills.
He is grateful.
How much money is Jimmy given upon release from prison?
Two dollars
Five hundred dollars
Nothing
Five dollars
Which character determines the resolution of the story?
Mike Dolan
Mr. Adams
Ben Price
Jimmy Valentine
Why does Jimmy decide to give up safe cracking?
He has found that love and a law-abiding life is more satisfying than a life of crime.
Safe cracking does not pay enough.
He has lost confidence in his safe cracking abilities.
He knows that Ben Price is on his trail.
Which of the prison warden's words to Jimmy help FORESHADOW the surprise ending?
He praises Jimmy for having friends in high toned society.
He says that Jimmy is not a bad fellow at heart.
He says the mean old jury had it in for Jimmy.
He says that Jimmy is an innocent victim.
Jimmy wears fancy clothes, eats well and robs banks for money. What does this tell you about him?
He grew up in poverty.
He wants to move to a big city.
He wants to become famous.
He likes the good life.
Jimmy can be characterized as 'virtuous' because...
He gave a blind man a quarter.
Ben Price decides to let him go.
He saves Agatha from the safe, even though he may lose Annabel.
He runs the most successful shoe store in the town.
Agatha being locked in the safe and Jimmy deciding to save her represents the story's...
rising action.
setting.
climax.
resolution.
Why does Jimmy ask Annabel for the rose she’s wearing before he cracks open the safe?
He hopes the rose will bring him good luck as he tries to save the little girl.
He plans to use the rose as one of the tools to help get the safe open.
He knows he will have to leave town, and he wants the rose to remember her by.
Where did Jimmy Valentine plan on moving after getting married to Annabel?
North
West
East
South
"A Retrieved Reformation" is told in ............ point of view.
first person
second person
third person limited
third person omniscient
Jimmy was arrested and sentenced imprisonment...
in Elmore case.
in Springfield case.
in St. Louis case.
None of the options given.
Jimmy discovered on the floor of his room...
Ben Price's key.
Ben Price's shirt.
Ben Price's pen.
Ben Price's collar-button.
The age of May was...
five years old.
six years old.
nine years old.
eight years old.
Jimmy rescued Agatha....
in half an hour.
in ten minutes.
in twenty minutes.
in one minute.
Which word has the CLOSEST meaning to the
underlined word?
"Ben Price was on the trail of the elusive burglar, people with burglar-proof safes began to feel safe once again."
Sly; difficult to catch
Sincere and trustworthy
Long-drawn-out.
Unfazed and collected.
