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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. In which settlement did Mollie and her family live within the Osage reservation?
(a) Sutpen.
(b) Gray Horse.
(c) Whizbang.
(d) Pawhuska.

2. The author states that when William Hale turned himself in to Sheriff Freas, he looked as if he were going where?
(a) To a formal party.
(b) To church.
(c) To heaven.
(d) To his execution.

3. Who was George Bigheart's daughter's financial guardian and thus controlled her headright money?
(a) Ernest Burkhart.
(b) H.G. Burt.
(c) Tom White.
(d) Burt Lawson.

4. Where was the author doing research on the Osage murders when he called Martha Vaughn?
(a) Pawhuska.
(b) Oklahoma City.
(c) Wall Drug.
(d) Topeka.

5. When the gas station worker revealed to the undercover operative that she knew who had set William Hale's fields on fire, whom did she name as the culprit?
(a) Bryan Burkhart.
(b) Bill Smith.
(c) Dudley White.
(d) William Hale.

Short Answer Questions

1. What decade was a writer of the age referring to when calling it "the greatest, gaudiest spree in history" (77)?

2. What was found to be the cause of death in W.W. Vaughn's murder?

3. When the Osage land auction record rose to nearly $14 million, a reporter remarked in an article, "The Osage Indians are becoming so rich that" (76) what?

4. Who was the last person who had to die before Ernest Burkhart would control all of his wife's family's headrights?

5. Which of Mollie's sisters had died three years before the beginning of the narrative?

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