About the retrieved reformation.

1) what inference can you make from paragraphs 2-6?

the warden wants jimmy to stay in prison because they get along.

jimmy really believes he is innocent.

the warden is trying to frame jimmy.

the warden believes that jimmy is innocent.

jimmy is using verbal irony, or sarcasm, by saying he has never cracked a safe.

2) putting together the clues in paragraphs 1 and 8, how did jimmy get out of jail after serving only ten months of a four-year sentence?

jimmy has influential "friends" who got the governor to pardon him.

he convinced the warden to let him out early.

jimmy's friends him plan an elaborate escape from prison.

the warden was worried for jimmy's safety in the prison, so they released him early.

he was proven to be innocent.

3) what inference can you make from paragraph 9?

jimmy has resumed his old ways of safecracking.

ben price has teamed up with jimmy in cracking safes.

someone else has taken jimmy's place as expert safecracker.

jimmy valentine has reformed his ways.

ben price has given up searching for jimmy valentine.

4) what does the following sentence from paragraph 13 suggest?

"jimmy looked into her eyes, forgot what he was, and became another man. "

jimmy was afraid that annabel would turn him into ben price.

annabel knew jimmy was a safecracker, but she convinced him to reform his ways.

jimmy changed his outward appearance so that he wouldn't get caught.

jimmy experienced memory loss.

one look at annabel has made jimmy forget his life of crime and desire to change his ways.

5) interpret the meaning of paragraphs 20-21.

annabel will not marry jimmy unless he gives up his life of crime.

jimmy is living a double life as a shoe repairman by day and a safecracker by night.

annabel knows of jimmy's past but believes he has truly changed.

ralph spencer took jimmy's place as a safecracker.

jimmy valentine's life has been completely transformed because he fell in love.

6) reread the letter jimmy sends to one of his old friends, billy (paragraph 25). how do you know jimmy's change is sincere?

he says he is going to give his safecracking tools to billy.

he now owns a shoe store and is making an honest living.

he gets along with annabel's family.

he is going to tell annabel the truth and turn himself in.

he wants to cut off all ties with his friends from his old life.

7) what is the primary conflict of the story?

jimmy is trying to figure out the best way to break into the bank that annabel's father owns.

jimmy has changed his ways but must avoid being caught by ben price in order to keep his old life a secret.

jimmy has resumed his old life of safecracking and does not want to get caught.

jimmy must convince annabel that he has left his old life behind.

jimmy tries to make annabel fall in love with him.

8) what is the climax of the story?

ben price finally catches jimmy valentine.

jimmy send the letter to billy.

jimmy continues to crack safes after he is released from prison.

jimmy must decide whether to crack the safe to save agatha or to keep his old life a secret.

jimmy meets annabel and decides to change his ways.

9) interpret the meaning of the figurative expression in this sentence in paragraph 44.

"with the act ralph d. spencer passed away and jimmy valentine took his place."

ralph spencer literally died.

jimmy officially changed his name.

jimmy went back to his old criminal ways of safecracking and stealing money.

jimmy killed ralph spencer and took his name.

jimmy stopped pretending he was someone else.

10) how does jimmy show a true change of character a the end of the story?

he turns himself in and allows ben price to catch him.

he reveals his past to annabel's father.

he risks everything he has- his new life and identity- to save someone's life.

he asks annabel to marry him.

he refuses to crack the safe and return to his old life of crime.