1. Which of the following best describes conflicting or opposing motives
experienced by one of the characters?

a.) Bob is not sure whether Jimmy is the right type to be his friend.
b.) Bob is feeling doubts about the life he has chosen to lead.
c.) Jimmy feels both loyalty to Bob and the need to do his duty.
d.) Over time, Jimmy has become ashamed of having been called a “plodder.”

2. Which of the following quotations from the passage best supports
the answer to Question 1?

a.) “He was a kind of plodder, though, good fellow as he was.” (paragraph 7)
b.) “It sometimes changes a good man into a bad one,” said the tall man. (paragraph 22)
c.) His hand was steady when he began to read, but it trembled a little by the time he had finished. (paragraph 23)
d.) “Somehow I couldn’t do it myself, so I went around and got a plain clothes man to do the job.” (paragraph 24)