This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chronicle One: The Marked Woman, Chapters 6-7 and Chronicle Two: The Evidence Man, Chapters 8-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what decade did the U.S. government forcibly move the Osage tribe from their land in Kansas?
(a) 1870s.
(b) 1920s.
(c) 1880s.
(d) 1840s.

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

4. How old was Mollie when she married Henry Roan in what was likely an arranged marriage?
(a) 17.
(b) 18.
(c) 20.
(d) 15.

5. What quality of the land convinced the Osage chief Wah-Ti-An-Kah and others in the tribe to purchase it as their new homeland?
(a) It was rocky and infertile, so white settlers would leave the tribe alone.
(b) It was large enough to accommodate the tribe's biannual buffalo hunts.
(c) It was lush and verdant, so the tribe could practice agriculture.
(d) It was oil-rich.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What is NOT one role the author names when describing Henry Grammer?

3. In what year was the law enacted that deemed Osage people with financial guardians as "restricted" (79)?

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

5. How old was Minnie when she died?

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