What is jim smiley's main interest in life?

a. training animals
b. jumping frogs
c. rambling from town to town
d. hustling and gambling

D. hustling and gambling

Explanation

The character of Jim Smiley is described as loving to gable and doing pretty much anything to get some money and to bet.

While in the story Jim Smiley does train frog to jump, that is his not main interest. He is training jumping frog for betting and gambling, which is what he mostly does in life.

what is the purpose of the description in this passage from travels with charley?

to explain how he develops friendships with people

to show his fear of the man

to show that people in the bad lands are dangerous

to show the similarity between the man and the place

ich statement best shows a problem in travels with charley?

one sharp difficulty presented itself. in the intervening twenty-five years my name had become reasonably well known.

this being so, my trip demanded that i leave my name and my identity at home.

i had to go alone and i had to be self-contained, a kind of casual turtle carrying his house on his back.

with all this in mind i wrote to the head office of a great corporation which manufactures trucks.