I need help plz and thank you 2 “Now, Valentine,” said the warden, “you’ll go out in the morning. Brace up, and make a man of yourself. You’re not a bad fellow at heart. Stop cracking safes, and live straight.”

3 “Me?” said Jimmy, in surprise. “Why, I never cracked a safe in my life.”

4 “Oh, no,” laughed the warden. “Of course not. Let’s see, now. How was it you happened to get sent up on that Springfield job? Was it because you wouldn’t prove an alibi for fear of compromising somebody in extremely high-toned society? Or was it simply a case of a mean old jury that had it in for you? It’s always one or the other with you innocent victims.”

5 “Me?” said Jimmy, still blankly virtuous. “Why, warden, I never was in Springfield in my life!”

6 “Take him back, Cronin!” said the warden, “and fix him up with outgoing clothes. Unlock him at seven in the morning, and let him come to the bull-pen. Better think over my advice, Valentine.”

1) Choose the best answer.

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.

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

1 A guard came to the prison shoe-shop, where Jimmy Valentine was assiduously [diligently] stitching uppers, and escorted him to the front office. There the warden handed Jimmy his pardon, which had been signed that morning by the governor. Jimmy took it in a tired kind of way. He had served nearly ten months of a four year sentence. He had expected to stay only about three months, at the longest. When a man with as many friends on the outside as Jimmy Valentine had is received in the “stir” it is hardly worthwhile to cut his hair.

8 The clerk handed him a railroad ticket and the five-dollar bill with which the law expected him to rehabilitate [restore] himself into good citizenship and prosperity. The warden gave him a cigar, and shook hands. Valentine, 9762, was chronicled on the books, “Pardoned by Governor,” and Mr. James Valentine walked out into the sunshine. [Pardon means to release from the penalty of an offense]

2) Choose the best answer.

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?

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

He was proven to be innocent.

He convinced the warden to let him out early.

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

9 A week after the release of Valentine, 9762, there was a neat job of safe-burglary done in Richmond, Indiana, with no clue to the author. A scant eight hundred dollars was all that was secured. Two weeks after that a patented, improved, burglar-proof safe in Logansport was opened like a cheese to the tune of fifteen hundred dollars, currency; securities and silver untouched. That began to interest the rogue-catchers [criminal-catchers]. Then an old-fashioned bank-safe in Jefferson City became active and threw out of its crater an eruption of bank-notes amounting to five thousand dollars. The losses were now high enough to bring the matter up into Ben Price’s class of work. By comparing notes, a remarkable similarity in the methods of the burglaries was noticed. Ben Price investigated the scenes of the robberies, and was heard to remark:

3) Choose the best answer.

What inference can you make from paragraph 9?

Jimmy has resumed his old ways of safecracking.

Ben Price has given up searching for Jimmy Valentine.

Someone else has taken Jimmy's place as expert safecracker.

Jimmy Valentine has reformed his ways.