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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chronicle Three: The Reporter, Chapters 23-26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) The sale of headrights.
(b) Alcohol sales on reservation lands.
(c) Lynchings.
(d) Gambling on reservation lands.

2. What was the listed cause of death for W.W. Vaughn's demise?
(a) Suffocation.
(b) Blunt force trauma.
(c) Unknown.
(d) Heart disturbance.

3. With whom did Tom White and the prosecutors work in order to keep William Hale and John Ramsey behind bars by filing state charges against them for the bombing murders?
(a) The Colorado attorney general.
(b) The Oklahoma attorney general.
(c) The Kansas attorney general.
(d) The Utah attorney general.

4. To what event did the euphemism "necktie party" (139) refer?
(a) Lynchings.
(b) Black tie affairs.
(c) Legal hangings.
(d) Communal dinners.

5. What changed William Hale's initial reaction to the news that his case would have to be tried in state court?
(a) Mollie Burkhart spoke up from the back of the courtroom.
(b) Tom White informed William Hale that he would only be released for a few hours.
(c) Sheriff Freas arrested William Hale, this time on state charges.
(d) He heard his nephew Ernest Burkhart cry out.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the man who embezzled funds from W.W. Vaughan's estate after his murder?

2. In what year did Tom White join the Bureau of Investigation?

3. How much time did Thomas Middleton actually spend in prison for his role in the murder of Mary Lewis?

4. 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)?

5. To whom did Anna Brown bequeath nearly all her wealth upon her death?

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