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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where does Dick end up renting a room during his affair with Sarah?
2. What do some people misinterpret Zee's shyness as?
3. Where do most of the gang members sleep at Jesse's home after they rob the train on Independence Hill?
4. Where does Jesse live until the Civil War is over?
5. According to one of Bob's stories, what do Jesse and his gang give to a kind woman who gave them a meal?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Bob tell Wood as he lay dying?
2. Why is Jesse's son known as Tim?
3. Why do other gang members tease Bob when they are all sent away -- except for him -- at the beginning of Chapter 3?
4. How is John Whicher killed?
5. Who do Union soldiers try to beat information out of during the Civil War?
6. What happens when the detectives throw a bomb into Jesse's mother's house, thinking he is hiding there?
7. How does Jesse respond to the news that his sister is set to marry Allen Parmer?
8. What does Frank declare about the gang after they rob the train on Independence Hill?
9. What is Ed talking about when Jesse shoots him?
10. What "gift" does Jesse give Chappy Foote as he is leaving the train after robbing it?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss at least 3 ways that the violence and/or robbery scenes in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" are gratuitously violent and why such violence takes away from the plot and/or rest of the text.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss at least 3 literary devices that Hansen uses to help the reader better understand at least one character of your choosing. Use direct quotations and/or examples from the text to support your position.
Essay Topic 3
Identify what you think is the tone for "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" and discuss 3 literary devices that Hansen uses to create this tone.
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