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

2. What newspaper does Jesse show Zee that causes her to become angry with him and with what he does for a living?
(a) The Los Angeles Times.
(b) The Dallas Star.
(c) The New York Times.
(d) The Kansas City Times.

3. Why does Wood's father remarry?
(a) He likes women too much to stay single.
(b) His first wife dies.
(c) He has to marry to stay out of jail.
(d) He has to marry to keep his identity secret.

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

5. When does Jesse tell the gang that they'll divide the spoils of the robbery of the train on Independence Hill?
(a) As soon as the train departs.
(b) In one week.
(c) In exactly one month.
(d) Later.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do detectives attack Jesse's mother's house?

2. Which Younger brother is shot during a run-in with detectives?

3. How long are Jesse and Zee engaged before they actually marry?

4. Why doesn't Dick want Bob to tell Jesse about his involvement with Jim?

5. What is Jesse James's full name?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How is John Whicher killed?

7. What does Dick tell Sarah to do when they find John's body in the pig sty?

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

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

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

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