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- 1. Multiple Choice
Why does Soapy try to get arrested?
Because he's a dirty rotten criminal.
He needs an warm place and food for the winter.
The wants to make new friends.
- 2. Multiple Choice
How does Soapy plan on getting to Blackwell's Island?
He plans on riding the ferry over.
He plans on getting arrested and sent there.
He plans on taking an airplane there with his friends.
- 3. Multiple Choice
The following are all ways Soapy tries to get arrested ACCEPT...
He breaks a window.
He tires to eat in a restaurant without paying.
He steals a car.
He tries to steal an umbrella.
- 4. Multiple Choice
What makes Soapy change his mind about getting arrested?
He hears an anthem from his childhood and remembers that his mom wants him to be good.
He cop tells him he will go to jail if he breaks the law.
The lady hits him over the head with the umbrella.
- 5. Multiple Choice
What is the IRONY in this story?
Soapy talks to the newsboy.
Soapy is worried that winter is coming.
After he decides to not get arrested and get a job, he gets arrested for loitering and is taken by a cop.
- 6. Multiple Choice
What is irony
A very sad song.
When something happens in a different way than it is supposed to happen.
A way to get wrinkles out of clothes.
- 7. Multiple Choice
Is Soapy a good person?
No, he's a criminal!
Yes, but he made some bad choices in the beginning of the story.
- 8. Multiple Choice
Why was Soapy arrested?
Because he broke a window.
Because he stole a woman's umbrella.
Because he was loitering outside of a restaurant (short story) / A cop thought he was stealing from the money box at the church (film).
- 9. Multiple Choice
What is the climax of the story?
Wanting to be arrested, Soapy talks to a woman.
Wanting to be arrested, Soapy eats in an expensive restaurant and doesn't pay the bill.
Soapy walks by a church and hears a song playing. He remembers his childhood and realizes that he needs to do good things.
- 10. Multiple Choice
What happens at the resolution/denouement/end of the story?
Soapy is arrested and ultimately goes to prison.
Soapy stays at the church, and they help him.
Soapy and his dog go to California.
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