Question

jim smily and his jumping frog
mark twain
mr. a. ward,
dear sir.—
1 well, i called on good - natured, garrulous old simon wheeler, and i inquired after your friend leonidas w. smily, as you requested me to do, and i hereunto append the result. if you can get any information out of it you are cordially welcome to it. i have a lurking suspicion that your leonidas w. smily is a myth—that you never knew such a personage, and that you only conjectured that if i asked old wheeler about him it would remind him of his infamous jim smily, and he would go to work and bore me nearly to death with some infernal reminiscence of him as long and tedious as it should be useless to me. if that was your design, mr. ward, it will gratify you to know that it succeeded.
2 i found simon wheeler dozing comfortably by the barroom stove of the little old dilapidated tavern in the ancient mining camp of boomerang, and i noticed that he was fat and bald - headed, and had an expression of winning
which statement best summarizes paragraph 2?
a simon wheeler is lazy, fat and bald - headed.
b simon wheeler has no time to tell rev. leonidas w. smiley about the young narrator.
c simon wheeler clearly taking the place of being the major protagonist of this story.
d the narrator wakes simon wheeler and asks if wheeler can tell him about a rev. leonidas w. smily.

Explanation:

Paragraph 2 describes the narrator finding Simon Wheeler dozing and observing his physical appearance (fat, bald - headed). Option A only mentions some of his physical traits but not the dozing part. Option B is not relevant as there is no mention of time for Rev. Leonidas W. Smiley. Option C is incorrect as the major protagonist is Jim Smily. Option D is correct as it describes the narrator waking Simon Wheeler (implied by finding him dozing) and asking about Rev. Leonidas W. Smily (as per the context of the letter).

Answer:

D. The narrator wakes Simon Wheeler and asks if Wheeler can tell him about a Rev. Leonidas W. Smily.