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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chronicle One: The Marked Woman, Chapters 6-7 and Chronicle Two: The Evidence Man, Chapters 8-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During what time period did police departments emerge in the United States?
(a) In the early nineteenth century.
(b) In the early twentieth century.
(c) In the late nineteenth century.
(d) In the mid-nineteenth century.

2. What did the sheriff of Osage County do once he was notified that Anna's body had been found?
(a) He called the FBI.
(b) He notified Anna's family about the discovery of her body.
(c) He went to the scene to take photographs.
(d) He sent one of his deputies to collect evidence.

3. What decade was a writer of the age referring to when calling it "the greatest, gaudiest spree in history" (77)?
(a) The 1870s.
(b) The 1930s.
(c) The 1890s.
(d) The 1920s.

4. How many days did the Schoun brothers determine had passed between the time of Anna's murder and the finding of her body?
(a) Three to five days.
(b) Nine to eleven days.
(c) Twenty-four to thirty-six hours.
(d) Five to seven days.

5. In what location of Kansas were the Osage forced to settle once they had been forcibly removed from their ancestral lands in Oklahoma?
(a) Southeastern Colorado.
(b) Northwestern Kansas.
(c) Southeastern Kansas.
(d) Southwestern Iowa.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Mollie's sisters had died three years before the beginning of the narrative?

2. How was William Hale related to Bryan Burkhart?

3. How long after Anna's murder did her mother Lizzie die of a "peculiar wasting illness" (35)?

4. What fact made the authorities certain that W.W. Vaughn's disappearance from his train was the result of foul play?

5. Within how many years of the Louisiana Purchase were the Osage forced by the U.S. government to "relinquish their territory between the Arkansas River and the Missouri River" (37)?

(see the answer key)

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