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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who testified in defense of the Osage people at a Congressional hearing, arguing "that the government should not be dictating the Osage's financial decisions" (79)?
(a) Mollie Burkhart.
(b) Theodore Roosevelt.
(c) William Hale.
(d) Tom White.

2. How long after Anna's murder did her mother Lizzie die of a "peculiar wasting illness" (35)?
(a) Less than three months.
(b) Less than two months.
(c) Less than two weeks.
(d) Less than one month.

3. 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) Twenty-four to thirty-six hours.
(c) Five to seven days.
(d) Nine to eleven days.

4. In what year was the Louisiana Purchase enacted, "which contained lands dominated by the Osage" (37)?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1795.
(c) 1816.
(d) 1803.

5. What sentence did Henry Grammer receive after he "gunned down a sheepshearer" (87) in Montana in 1904?
(a) Three years.
(b) Twenty-five years.
(c) Five years.
(d) Fifteen years.

6. What item did Mollie and her family place within Anna's coffin on the day of her funeral, in keeping with Osage beliefs?
(a) Silver.
(b) Food.
(c) Blankets.
(d) Money.

7. With whom was Anna riding in a car the final time Mollie saw Anna alive?
(a) Ernest Burkhart.
(b) Charles Whitehorn.
(c) William Hale.
(d) Bryan Burkhart.

8. How long after Barney McBride's murder was Henry Roan's body found?
(a) Six months.
(b) Three days.
(c) Two months.
(d) Two weeks.

9. What caused the justice of the peace to stop convening inquests into the latest Osage murders in 1923?
(a) He lost interest in the case.
(b) He was bribed.
(c) He was murdered.
(d) He received anonymous threats.

10. In what year did Mollie and Henry marry?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1913.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1898.

11. The Osage refer to which month as "the time of the flower-killing moon" (5)?
(a) October.
(b) April.
(c) June.
(d) May.

12. What promise did William Hale make to Mollie after the bombing of Bill and Rita Smith's home, resulting in their murders?
(a) He promised to pay for the renovation of the Smiths' former home.
(b) He promised to adopt the Smiths' children.
(c) He promised to avenge her family's murders.
(d) He promised to move away from the reservation.

13. 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)
(a) T.S. Eliot.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) Gertrude Stein.
(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald.

14. What was the name of the part-Kaw, part-Osage U.S. senator from Kansas who was then the "highest official with acknowledged Indian ancestry ever elected to office" (96)?
(a) John Palmer.
(b) Charles Curtis.
(c) William Hale.
(d) Tom White.

15. Under what natural feature did the auctioneer stand when conducting the Osage land auctions?
(a) A sandstone cliff.
(b) A waterfall.
(c) A tree.
(d) A rock bridge.

Short Answer Questions

1. Just before W.W. Vaughn left his house for the last time, to whom did he give information about hidden evidence and money?

2. What Biblical reference did a government inspector make during his plea to Congress asking them to take greater control over the Osage people and their money?

3. Harve M. Freas was the sheriff of what county at the time of Anna's death?

4. The text states that which person was "revered as the 'King of the Osage Hills'" (29)?

5. What caliber pistol was used to kill both Charles Whitehorn and Anna Brown?

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