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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. What do Bob and Charley discover when they go to the sheriff's office to turn themselves in after shooting Jesse?
2. Who is Elias?
3. What reason does Bob give to Jesse about why he was in Kansas City?
4. What habit of Jesse's does Bob pick up while staying at "The House on the Hill"?
5. Why is Dick's leg wound slow to heal?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Jesse like "The House on the Hill" so much?
2. Why is Timberlake suspicious that Jesse will ever show up again that Bob will indeed turn him in?
3. What does Bob say in response to questioning about why his underwear has someone else's initials on them?
4. What does Elias tell Timberlake when he sees Jesse at a relative's store?
5. What happens when Bob and Charley try to turn themselves in at the sheriff's office after Bob kills Jesse?
6. What telegraph does Bob send to Timberlake while staying with Jesse?
7. What does Zerelda freak out about when Jesse and Charley are sharing Christmas dinner with her?
8. What does Jesse confess to Charley one night when he wakes him up?
9. Why does Sheriff TImberlake refer Bob and Dick to Henry Craig?
10. What do Jesse and Charley do with the toys and Santa suit they steal from the church?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe at least 4 ways that the novel is changed -- either positively or negatively -- by having such detailed information about the main characters. Use specific examples from the text to support your argument.
Essay Topic 2
Choose one female character in the novel and describe at least 3 things that Hansen is able to do with her character because she is a woman AND at least 3 things he is not able to do with her because she is a woman.
Essay Topic 3
Present a well-reasoned paper arguing whether the reader is supposed to find Bob Ford a likable (dedicated, determined, trying to do the "right" thing) character OR an unlikable (manipulative, fame-hungry, back-stabbing, weak) character. Make sure to use specific examples from the text to support your thesis.
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