C2 Proficiency

Reading Comprehension - Multiple

Matching
Answer the questions 1-10 by referring to the article below. Choose from
the list of outlaws (A-D) for each question. Some of the choices may be
required more than once. For some of the questions, more than one letter
is required, which may be given in any order. For ONE question, the answer
is "none".

Which of these outlaws... (A-D):

1. had the same nickname as another of the same era

2. was the subject of gross exaggeration in his exploits
3. had legal employment before turning to crime (2 A. Jesse James

answers)
4. usually wore a hat B. Billy The Kid
5. was claimed to have helped others less wealthy than
himself
C. Jack Dunlop
6. rejected his family's pleas to give himself up
7. had a nickname based on his physical appearance
8. was killed by someone he knew D. Buffalo Bill

9. showed fear in one encounter

10. became famous through the media
Four Wild West Outlaws

Jesse James was an American outlaw, gang leader, bank robber, train
robber, and murderer from the state of Missouri and the most famous
member of the James-Younger Gang. Already a celebrity when he was
alive, he became a legendary figure of the Wild West after his death. Some
recent scholars place him in the context of regional insurgencies of ex-
Confederates following the American Civil War rather than a manifestation
of frontier lawlessness or alleged economic justice.

Jesse and his brother Frank James were Confederate guerrillas during the
Civil War. They were accused of participating in atrocities committed
against Union soldiers. After the war, as members of one gang or another,
they robbed banks, stagecoaches and trains. Despite popular portrayals of
James as a kind of Robin Hood, robbing from the rich and giving to the
poor, there is no evidence that he and his gang used their robbery gains for
anyone but themselves.

The James brothers were most active with their gang from about 1866 until
1876, when their attempted robbery of a bank in Northfield, Minnesota,
resulted in the capture or deaths of several members. They continued in
crime for several years, recruiting new members, but were under increasing
pressure from law enforcement. On April 3, 1882, Jesse James was killed by
Robert Ford, who was a member of the gang living in the James house and
who was hoping to collect a state reward on James' head.

William H. Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid but also known as Henry
Antrim, was a 19th-century American gunman who participated in the
Lincoln County War and became a frontier outlaw in the American Old West.
According to legend, he killed 21 men, but it is generally believed that he
killed between four and nine. He killed his first man at 18.

McCarty (or Bonney, the name he used at the height of his notoriety) was
5'8" (173 cm) tall with blue eyes, a smooth complexion, and prominent
front teeth. He was said to be friendly and personable at times, and it's
been said that he was as lithe as a cat. Contemporaries described him as a
"neat" dresser who favored an "unadorned Mexican sombrero". These
qualities, along with his cunning and celebrated skill with firearms,
contributed to his paradoxical image as both a notorious outlaw and
beloved folk hero.

Relatively unknown during most of his lifetime, Billy was catapulted into
legend in 1881 when New Mexico's governor, Lew Wallace, placed a price
on his head. In addition, the Las Vegas Gazette (Las Vegas, New Mexico)
and the New York Sun carried stories about his exploits. Other newspapers
followed suit. After his death, several biographies were written that
portrayed the Kid in varying lights.

Jack Dunlop, also known as John Dunlop, Jess Dunlop, John Patterson,
and most commonly Three Fingered Jack was an outlaw in the closing days
of the Old West, best known for being a train robber. Whether or not he
actually physically had three fingers on either of his hands has never been
confirmed.

Dunlop was born in Texas, and spent most of his early life from his mid to
late teens as a cowboy. How and where he first became involved in the
outlaw life is uncertain, but he was arrested after several bank robberies in
1893. Released from prison in 1895, Dunlop joined the "Black Jack"
Christian Gang, but by 1898 he was riding with the Burt Alvord Gang. The
gang began hitting trains in Arizona, with success, and with "Three Fingered
Jack" Dunlop quickly becoming the best known of the bunch. At midnight on
September 9, 1899, the gang robbed a Southern Pacific Express for just
over $10,000. During that robbery, the gang had detached the car
containing the money, then opened the safe by way of dynamite. The gang
then escaped into the Chiricahua Mountains, and a posse led by Sheriff
Scott White and including George Scarborough was unsuccessful in their
pursuit.
A few months later, the gang struck again. On February 15, 1900, the gang
hit a train at the Fairbank, which served Tombstone, Arizona. Noted and
well-known lawman Jeff Davis Milton was working as a guard on that train.
A gunfight between Milton and the five gang members ensued, resulting in
Milton shooting buckshot into the stomach of Dunlop, while shooting and
wounding gang member Juan Yoas. Milton was badly wounded in the right
arm during the gunbattle. Not aware that Milton was so badly injured, the
gang fled.

Dunlop's wound was serious, as he had been hit by eleven pellets from the
shotgun, mostly in the stomach region, whereas Yoas had been shot in the
buttocks. The five outlaws split up shortly after fleeing the scene, with the
understanding that they would meet up just outside of Contention City,
Arizona. Dunlop fell from his horse only a few miles from where the robbery
had taken place, where he lay for fourteen hours before a posse came
across him. He was taken to Tombstone, where he died on February 24,
1900. Dunlop is buried in Tombstone's Boot Hill cemetery.

William L. "Buffalo Bill" Brooks was a western lawman and later outlaw.
Brooks was born in Ohio around 1832 where he later became a buffalo
hunter in the late-1840s or early-1850s whose success equaled fellow
buffalo hunter William F. Cody earning the same nickname of Buffalo Bill.
During the late 1860s, Brooks had killed several men in various gunfights,
and was briefly hired as a stage driver for the Southwestern Stage Co.,
before becoming the marshal of Newton, Kansas in 1872. Although he was
reported to have been around 40 years old, several biographers have
claimed Brooks was in his 20s.

With Brooks success in Newton he was soon offered a position in Dodge City
as town marshal where he was later involved in 15 gunfights during his first
month. In one case, one of the men killed had four brothers who came after
Brooks in revenge. As the brothers arrived in town Brooks was said to have
killed all four men with four shots each. By the following year Brooks had
cleared the city of most major criminals. Brooks however began to kill
several men in questionable circumstances including one incident where he
killed a man over an argument with a local dance hall girl. After backing
down from gunfighter Kirk Jordan, Brooks left town shortly after.

According to legend Brooks went to Butte, Montana where he attempted to

become the city marshal but, in part because of Brooks' reputation, was
instead passed over in favor of Morgan Earp. Confronting Earp over his
defeat, Brooks was shot in the stomach and Morgan was shot in the
shoulder.

Records show however that, shortly after leaving Dodge City, Brooks
returned to his old position as a stage driver for the Southwestern Stage
Co. in early 1874. Several months later however the company had lost a
mail contract to a rival company and Brooks lost his job. In June several
mules and horses owned by the rival company had been stolen and Brooks,
with two other men, were arrested the next month. It was charged that
Brooks had apparently attempted to weaken the rival company and win
back the mail contract for the Southwestern Stage Company. Brooks was
hanged by an angry crowd while awaiting trial on July 29, 1874.

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Reading Comprehension - Multiple
Matching
Answer the questions 1-10 by referring to the article below. Choose from
the list of outlaws (A-D) for each question. Some of the choices may be
required more than once. For some of the questions, more than one letter
is required, which may be given in any order. For ONE question, the answer
is "none".

Which of these outlaws... (A-D):

1. had the same nickname as another of the same era D A. Jesse

2. was the subject of gross exaggeration in his exploits B
James
3. had legal employment before turning to crime C/D
4. usually wore a hat B
B. Billy The
5. was claimed to have helped others less wealthy than
himself A Kid

6. rejected his family's pleas to give himself up NONE

7. had a nickname based on his physical appearance C C. Jack Dunlop
8. was killed by someone he knew A
9. showed fear in one encounter D
D. Buffalo Bill
10. became famous through the media B

Four Wild West Outlaws

Jesse James was an American outlaw, gang leader, bank robber, train
robber, and murderer from the state of Missouri and the most famous
member of the James-Younger Gang. Already a celebrity when he was
alive, he became a legendary figure of the Wild West after his death. Some
recent scholars place him in the context of regional insurgencies of ex-
Confederates following the American Civil War rather than a manifestation
of frontier lawlessness or alleged economic justice.
Jesse and his brother Frank James were Confederate guerrillas during the
Civil War. They were accused of participating in atrocities committed
against Union soldiers. After the war, as members of one gang or another,
they robbed banks, stagecoaches and trains. (5)Despite popular portrayals
of James as a kind of Robin Hood, robbing from the rich and giving to the
poor, there is no evidence that he and his gang used their robbery gains for
anyone but themselves.

The James brothers were most active with their gang from about 1866 until
1876, when their attempted robbery of a bank in Northfield, Minnesota,
resulted in the capture or deaths of several members. They continued in
crime for several years, recruiting new members, but were under increasing
pressure from law enforcement. On April 3, 1882, (8)Jesse James was killed
by Robert Ford, who was a member of the gang living in the James
house and who was hoping to collect a state reward on James' head.

William H. Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid but also known as Henry
Antrim, was a 19th-century American gunman who participated in the
Lincoln County War and became a frontier outlaw in the American Old
West. (2)According to legend, he killed 21 men, but it is generally believed
that he killed between four and nine. He killed his first man at 18.

McCarty (or Bonney, the name he used at the height of his notoriety) was
5'8" (173 cm) tall with blue eyes, a smooth complexion, and prominent
front teeth. He was said to be friendly and personable at times, and it's
been said that he was as lithe as a cat. Contemporaries described him as a
"neat" dresser who favored (4)an "unadorned Mexican sombrero". These
qualities, along with his cunning and celebrated skill with firearms,
contributed to his paradoxical image as both a notorious outlaw and
beloved folk hero.

Relatively unknown during most of his lifetime, Billy was catapulted into
legend in 1881 when New Mexico's governor, Lew Wallace, placed a price
on his head. (10)In addition, the Las Vegas Gazette (Las Vegas, New
Mexico) and the New York Sun carried stories about his exploits. Other
newspapers followed suit. After his death, several biographies were written
that portrayed the Kid in varying lights.

Jack Dunlop, also known as John Dunlop, Jess Dunlop, John Patterson,
and (7)most commonly Three Fingered Jack was an outlaw in the closing
days of the Old West, best known for being a train robber. Whether or not
he actually physically had three fingers on either of his hands has never
been confirmed.

Dunlop was born in Texas, and (3)spent most of his early life from his mid
to late teens as a cowboy. How and where he first became involved in the
outlaw life is uncertain, but he was arrested after several bank robberies in
1893. Released from prison in 1895, Dunlop joined the "Black Jack"
Christian Gang, but by 1898 he was riding with the Burt Alvord Gang. The
gang began hitting trains in Arizona, with success, and with "Three Fingered
Jack" Dunlop quickly becoming the best known of the bunch. At midnight on
September 9, 1899, the gang robbed a Southern Pacific Express for just
over $10,000. During that robbery, the gang had detached the car
containing the money, then opened the safe by way of dynamite. The gang
then escaped into the Chiricahua Mountains, and a posse led by Sheriff
Scott White and including George Scarborough was unsuccessful in their
pursuit.

A few months later, the gang struck again. On February 15, 1900, the gang
hit a train at the Fairbank, which served Tombstone, Arizona. Noted and
well-known lawman Jeff Davis Milton was working as a guard on that train.
A gunfight between Milton and the five gang members ensued, resulting in
Milton shooting buckshot into the stomach of Dunlop, while shooting and
wounding gang member Juan Yoas. Milton was badly wounded in the right
arm during the gunbattle. Not aware that Milton was so badly injured, the
gang fled.

Dunlop's wound was serious, as he had been hit by eleven pellets from the
shotgun, mostly in the stomach region, whereas Yoas had been shot in the
buttocks. The five outlaws split up shortly after fleeing the scene, with the
understanding that they would meet up just outside of Contention City,
Arizona. Dunlop fell from his horse only a few miles from where the robbery
had taken place, where he lay for fourteen hours before a posse came
across him. He was taken to Tombstone, where he died on February 24,
1900. Dunlop is buried in Tombstone's Boot Hill cemetery.

William L. "Buffalo Bill" Brooks was (3)a western lawman and later
outlaw. Brooks was born in Ohio around 1832 where he later became a
buffalo hunter in the late-1840s or early-1850s (1)whose success equaled
fellow buffalo hunter William F. Cody earning the same nickname of Buffalo
Bill. During the late 1860s, Brooks had killed several men in various
gunfights, and was briefly hired as a stage driver for the Southwestern
Stage Co., before becoming the marshal of Newton, Kansas in 1872.
Although he was reported to have been around 40 years old, several
biographers have claimed Brooks was in his 20s.

With Brooks success in Newton he was soon offered a position in Dodge City
as town marshal where he was later involved in 15 gunfights during his first
month. In one case, one of the men killed had four brothers who came after
Brooks in revenge. As the brothers arrived in town Brooks was said to have
killed all four men with four shots each. By the following year Brooks had
cleared the city of most major criminals. Brooks however began to kill
several men in questionable circumstances including one incident where he
killed a man over an argument with a local dance hall girl. (9)After backing
down from gunfighter Kirk Jordan, Brooks left town shortly after.

According to legend Brooks went to Butte, Montana where he attempted to

become the city marshal but, in part because of Brooks' reputation, was
instead passed over in favor of Morgan Earp. Confronting Earp over his
defeat, Brooks was shot in the stomach and Morgan was shot in the
shoulder.

Records show however that, shortly after leaving Dodge City, Brooks
returned to his old position as a stage driver for the Southwestern Stage
Co. in early 1874. Several months later however the company had lost a
mail contract to a rival company and Brooks lost his job. In June several
mules and horses owned by the rival company had been stolen and Brooks,
with two other men, were arrested the next month. It was charged that
Brooks had apparently attempted to weaken the rival company and win
back the mail contract for the Southwestern Stage Company. Brooks was
hanged by an angry crowd while awaiting trial on July 29, 1874.

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KEYS

1. had the same nickname as another of the same era D

2. was the subject of gross exaggeration in his exploits B
3. had legal employment before turning to crime C/D
4. usually wore a hat B
5. was claimed to have helped others less wealthy than himself A
6. rejected his family's pleas to give himself up NONE
7. had a nickname based on his physical appearance C
8. was killed by someone he knew A
9. showed fear in one encounter D
10. became famous through the media B