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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Chapter 10, Willie, The Boy No One Could Help, Chapter 11, Willie, The Baby-Face Killer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Laura tell Willie about his father?
(a) That he had no father.
(b) That he was in the United States Army.
(c) That he was dead.
(d) That he was working abroad.

2. Why did James start carrying a knife?
(a) He used it to carve wood.
(b) He wanted to protect his mom.
(c) He wanted to be a "bad man" like his father.
(d) For self-defense.

3. Why did the young slave Thomas Bauskett offered his son take the name of Bauskett?
(a) It was the name of his kindest master.
(b) The name was an approximate translation of his African name.
(c) He liked the name.
(d) It was the name of the first master he could recall.

4. When were southern states forced to give freed men the right to vote?
(a) March 1868.
(b) March 1869.
(c) March 1867.
(d) March 1866.

5. When did Willie James become part of a gang?
(a) At 12.
(b) At 9.
(c) At 8.
(d) At 6.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Aaron lose because of the 1876 election?

2. What does Butterfield say was everything for the settlers of the county?

3. How many more murders than Massachusetts did the county have up until the 1930's?

4. What happened in the late 1860's?

5. What was Butch first diagnosed as at Bellevue Hospital?

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