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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. Who shoots Jesse as the Civil War is ending?
(a) Union soldiers.
(b) The Secret Service.
(c) Confederate soldiers.
(d) The FBI.

2. Who is Zee named after?
(a) The town mayor's wife.
(b) A character in the Bible.
(c) No one.
(d) Jesse's mother.

3. Who is Dick Liddil?
(a) James's son.
(b) James's friend from college.
(c) James's cousin.
(d) James's step-father.

4. How old is Charley when he is first introduced into the novel?
(a) 24.
(b) 34.
(c) 44.
(d) 14.

5. Who kills Ed Cummins?
(a) Wood.
(b) Dick.
(c) Jesse.
(d) Sarah.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Wood's relationship to Jesse?

2. What do some people misinterpret Zee's shyness as?

3. Where is Jesse James's home located when the novel opens?

4. Who is Ida?

5. What does Zee tell Jesse she wants to know about how he earns a living?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What kind of reputation does Sarah have as she marries Wood's father?

4. What does Bob report he and Jesse talked about as the two men are getting to know each other?

5. 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?

6. What wounds does Jesse have when he is first introduced into the text?

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

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

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

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

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