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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 method was used by Henry Roan's murderer?
(a) Gunfire.
(b) Poison.
(c) Strangulation.
(d) Suffocation.

2. What quality nearly always led an Osage person to be appointed a white financial guardian?
(a) Physical disability.
(b) A history of mental illness.
(c) Lack of official enrollment in the tribe.
(d) The lack of white ancestry.

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

4. What promise did William Hale make to Mollie after the bombing of Bill and Rita Smith's home, resulting in their murders?
(a) He promised to pay for the renovation of the Smiths' former home.
(b) He promised to adopt the Smiths' children.
(c) He promised to move away from the reservation.
(d) He promised to avenge her family's murders.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who testified in defense of the Osage people at a Congressional hearing, arguing "that the government should not be dictating the Osage's financial decisions" (79)?

3. The text states that American lawmen in the 1920s "were then still largely" (19) what?

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. How many children did Henry Roan have at the time of his murder?

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