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In “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain, Jim Smiley is a _____.

frog


animal lover


storyteller


gambler

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The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain, Jim Smiley is a _gambler___ .

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he correct answer is D. Gambler

Step-by-step explanation:

"The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is a short story written by the American author Mark Twain and published in 1865. In this story, the narrator tells a story he heard from a bartender called Simon Wheeler about Jim Smiley who was a gambler. In this story, it is described Jim Smiley would gamble and bet on everything and because of this, he decides to catch a frog and train it to jump and then tries to use the trained frog to win a bet, but it is cheated by the other man that was participating in the bet. Therefore, in this short story, Jim Smiley is a gambler.

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