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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 want most in her earlier marriage to Jesse?
(a) To be a good wife to him.
(b) To become very famous.
(c) To have many kids very quickly.
(d) To become very rich.

2. Who is Sarah?
(a) Wood's sister.
(b) Wood's father's new wife.
(c) Wood's daughter.
(d) Wood's niece.

3. How long are Jesse and Zee engaged before they actually marry?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 9 years.
(d) 1 day.

4. Where is Jesse sent a second time after he is shot the first time?
(a) Ohio.
(b) Michigan.
(c) Kansas.
(d) Florida.

5. Where did Bob spend his childhood?
(a) Virginia.
(b) South Carolina.
(c) Texas.
(d) Florida.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Dick and Sarah first have their affair?

2. Who initially refuses to give into Bob's insistence that he be allowed to join the James gang?

3. How many newspapers does Jesse James subscribe to?

4. Who does Jesse's mother remarry after his father dies?

5. Who is Zee named after?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Annie do when she marries Frank?

3. How is Wood described when he is first introduced into the novel?

4. Why do other gang members tease Bob when they are all sent away -- except for him -- at the beginning of Chapter 3?

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

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

7. 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?

8. What does Bob tell Wood as he lay dying?

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

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

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