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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. How does Sheriff Timberlake refer to Bob?
2. Who provides Bob and Charley with an attorney?
3. Why do law officials have to close the James's house?
4. Who believes that the government supported Bob's actions toward Jesse?
5. Where is Craig's office located?
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 happens when several men arrive on horseback at the courthouse where Bob and Charley are being held?
3. What comparison does Jesse make -- that Bob doesn't like -- during a visit to Martha Bolton's?
4. What does Elias tell Timberlake when he sees Jesse at a relative's store?
5. What does Bob say in response to questioning about why his underwear has someone else's initials on them?
6. What is discovered about Jesse's body during the autopsy?
7. What happens with lawyers for Zee after Jesse is murdered?
8. What happens after a little boy finds the decomposing body of Wood Hite?
9. What kind of hypothetical question does Dick pose to Sheriff Timberlake when he and Bob run into him?
10. Why does Dick hid from Jesse when he stops by Martha Bolton's for a visit?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss whether or not the title of "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" is appropriate for the story. Make sure to use at least 3 specific examples from the text to support your position.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Analyze at least 3 literary techniques Hansen uses to make one character of your choosing from "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" very likable OR very unlikable to the reader.
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