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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chronicle Two: The Evidence Man, Chapters 12-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Once Tom White realized that corrupt white citizens would not implicate one another, what group did he turn to next in his quest to solve the Osage murders?
(a) The white outlaws of the Osage Hills.
(b) Unrestricted Osage tribe members.
(c) The guardians of the restricted Osage tribe members.
(d) Restricted Osage tribe members.

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

3. 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?
(a) David and Goliath.
(b) Samson and Delilah.
(c) Cain and Abel.
(d) Sodom and Gomorrah.

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

5. In what year was the law enacted that deemed Osage people with financial guardians as "restricted" (79)?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1917.

Short Answer Questions

1. J. Edgar Hoover often repeated the maxim "You either improve or" (167) do what?

2. The Osage refer to which month as "the time of the flower-killing moon" (5)?

3. How old was Tom White when he watched his father execute a criminal?

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

5. Whose headright had William Hale tried to purchase prior to the owner's death?

(see the answer key)

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