Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chronicle Two: The Evidence Man, Chapters 18-21 and Chronicle Three: The Reporter, Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The county prosecutor requested an exhumation of Anna's body in order to look for what piece of evidence?
(a) Signs of suffocation.
(b) Fingernail scratches.
(c) A bullet.
(d) Hair.

2. William Hale once said, "I, like many other good men, believed it would be only a short time until Congress would pass a law" (160) that permitted what practice?
(a) Alcohol sales on reservation lands.
(b) The sale of headrights.
(c) Gambling on reservation lands.
(d) Lynchings.

3. Which of Mollie's sisters had died three years before the beginning of the narrative?
(a) Lizzie.
(b) Minnie.
(c) Anna.
(d) Mabel.

4. John Ramsey denied involvement in the murder of Henry Roan until he was shown what document?
(a) The arrest warrants for his mother and brother.
(b) The warrant for his arrest.
(c) His wife's signed confession.
(d) Ernest Burkhart's signed confession.

5. What was determined to be the cause of Anna's death?
(a) A gunshot wound.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Poisoning.
(d) Asphyxiation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Kelsie Morrison's answer when he was asked what he had done directly after shooting Anna in the head?

2. What writer does the author quote when he writes that the age described in the narrative "was a time marked" (77) by an author who called it "the greatest, gaudiest spree in history"? (77)

3. What outrageous claim did William Hale make when he testified on his own behalf?

4. Who was the first person Mollie suspected of possibly being involved in Anna's murder?

5. Al Spencer told Tom White that William Hale had once offered him $2,000 to kill which two people?

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