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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Zee think happens to Jesse when he is around his friend Cole Younger?
(a) He gets nicer.
(b) He gets vicious.
(c) He gets quiet.
(d) He gets too drunk.

2. As he is about to rob the train on Independence Hill, who does Jesse introduce himself to?
(a) The mayor.
(b) The engineer.
(c) Bob.
(d) No one; he refuses to talk during robberies.

3. Where does Jesse have "two incompletely healed bullet holes"?
(a) In his chest.
(b) One in a leg, one in an arm.
(c) In his forearm.
(d) In his leg.

4. Which Younger brother is shot during a run-in with detectives?
(a) Jim.
(b) James.
(c) John.
(d) Jesse.

5. Why do detectives attack Jesse's mother's house?
(a) They think she has information on where Jesse is hiding.
(b) They think she is the one in charge of the gang, not Jesse.
(c) They think Jesse has stashed money there.
(d) They think Jesse is hiding inside.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who joins the Pinkerton Detectives in an effort to quell some of the robberies Jesse and his gang are committing?

2. On what hand is Jesse missing a piece of his finger?

3. What do Jesse and Frank do to the bank man who came to collect money from a kind woman who fed them once while on the road?

4. Who is Chappy Foote?

5. Who kills Ed Cummins?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Frank declare about the gang after they rob the train on Independence Hill?

2. What "gift" does Jesse give Chappy Foote as he is leaving the train after robbing it?

3. What happens once Zee begins to accept the kind of life she is going to have with Jesse?

4. How does the Kansas City Times describe the series of robberies that Jesse is involved with in Missouri?

5. What is Jesse's attitude, when the novel opens, toward smoking and drinking?

6. What happens when the detectives throw a bomb into Jesse's mother's house, thinking he is hiding there?

7. What happens to the children that Annie and Zee give birth to around the same time?

8. What is Ed Miller nervous about when Jesse comes to visit him at his home?

9. How does Jesse respond to the news that his sister is set to marry Allen Parmer?

10. How do the people of the train that the gang robs on Independence Hill respond when Frank tells them they don't rob preachers or widows?

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