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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 Dick tell Bob about his involvement with another man named Jim Cummins?
(a) That they are secret lovers.
(b) That he is in "cahoots" with him.
(c) That he is planning to kill him.
(d) That he knows he is an undercover detective.

2. What does Zee tell Jesse she wants to know about how he earns a living?
(a) Every detail.
(b) Lies so she knows what to tell the neighbors.
(c) She doesn't want to know about it.
(d) Only what he gets, not how he gets it.

3. What happens during the duel between Dick and Wood?
(a) Both men are seriously wounded.
(b) They end up laughing before they can shoot each other.
(c) No one is killed.
(d) Both men are killed.

4. Who does Susan marry?
(a) Jesse's nephew.
(b) Jesse.
(c) Allen Palmer.
(d) The town sherrif.

5. Who is Annie?
(a) Frank's wife.
(b) Frank's sister.
(c) Frank's secret girlfriend who sometimes comes along on robberies.
(d) Frank's mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jesse have "two incompletely healed bullet holes"?

2. What is Bob's full name?

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

4. What year was Jesse James born in?

5. Who ends up taking care of Jesse as he recovers from being shot?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reason does Charley give for why he hit a man over the head during the robbery of the train on Independence Hill?

2. What does Jesse offer to do before leaving Chappy Foote's train after robbing it -- and how does Chappy respond to the offer?

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

4. What happens to the Younger gang after the robbery of the First National Bank of Northfield?

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

6. What does Annie do when she marries Frank?

7. Why is Jesse's son known as Tim?

8. Who do Union soldiers try to beat information out of during the Civil War?

9. 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?

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

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