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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. A government study estimated that prior to 1925, how much money had been stolen from adult Osage wards by their appointed white guardians?
(a) $3,500,000.
(b) $2,000,000.
(c) $8,000,000.
(d) $18,000,000.

2. About what issue did Tom White and J. Edgar Hoover strongly disagree?
(a) The ways in which laymen should speak to the public.
(b) The recognition of regional differences in agent assignments.
(c) The trustworthiness of informers.
(d) William Hale's level of involvement in the Osage murders.

3. How does the author describe William Hale's manner immediately after Tom White had detailed the overwhelming evidence incriminating William Hale in several murders?
(a) Preoccupied.
(b) Detached.
(c) Nervous.
(d) Unperturbed.

4. Before joining the Justice Department, J. Edgar Hoover had been a clerk at what location?
(a) The Library of Congress.
(b) The Smithsonian.
(c) The Department of Transportation.
(d) The Treasury Department.

5. In 1926, Ernest Burkhart was sentenced to what punishment for his crimes?
(a) Forty years in prison without the possibility of parole.
(b) The death penalty.
(c) Life imprisonment and hard labor.
(d) Fifteen to twenty years in prison.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much insurance money was collected upon the burning of William Hale's fields?

2. When Pike, the private detective from Kansas, revealed that he had not really been hired to solve Anna's murder, what did he reveal his true purpose to be?

3. With what objects did the Osage begin to outline their homes after Henry Roan's murder?

4. Who created the Bureau of Investigation, "hoping to fill the void in federal law enforcement" (105)?

5. When William Hale tried to take out an insurance policy on Henry Roan, he was told that he could only do so if what condition were true?

(see the answer key)

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