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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 are Bob, Charley, and Jesse planning to go when Jesse is shot?
2. How much do Bob and Charley get as a reward for killing Jesse?
3. What is one of the lines in "The Ballade of Jesse James"?
4. Why do law officials have to close the James's house?
5. Why is Dick's leg wound slow to heal?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens when Bob and Charley try to turn themselves in at the sheriff's office after Bob kills Jesse?
2. What telegraph does Bob send to Timberlake while staying with Jesse?
3. What does Jesse confess to Charley one night when he wakes him up?
4. What kind of hypothetical question does Dick pose to Sheriff Timberlake when he and Bob run into him?
5. What happens when several men arrive on horseback at the courthouse where Bob and Charley are being held?
6. What makes the sheriff finally believe that Jesse James has really been shot?
7. Why is Timberlake suspicious that Jesse will ever show up again that Bob will indeed turn him in?
8. What does Bob say in response to questioning about why his underwear has someone else's initials on them?
9. Why does Jesse like "The House on the Hill" so much?
10. What comparison does Jesse make -- that Bob doesn't like -- during a visit to Martha Bolton's?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Discuss at least 3 reasons why "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" could be classified in a genre other than historical fiction, making sure to use specific 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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