Question

Ated Jumping Frog of

averas County
by Mark Twain
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According to Paragraph 4 of
Mark Twain's "The Celebrated
Jumping Frog of Calaveras
County," what addiction or
bad habit did Jim Smiley
have?
A. Gambling
B. Smoking
with the request of a friend
e me from the East, I called
arrulous old Simon Wheeler,
my friend's friend, Leonidas
nested to do, and I hereunto
I have a lurking suspicion
Smiley is a myth; that my
such a personage; and that
red that, if I asked old
7, it would remind him of his
ey, and he would go to work
to death with some infernal
im as long and tedious as it
- to me. If that was the
succeeded
C. Fighting
D. Stealing

Answer 1

Jim Smiley was a man who was hopelessly addicted to gambling. He placed bets compulsively, but he also invested in gambling seriously as his occupation. He would bet on just about any random event if he had someone to bet against him, and in those cases he wasn't picky about which side he was on.

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