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

2. What was the name of the part-Kaw, part-Osage U.S. senator from Kansas who was then the "highest official with acknowledged Indian ancestry ever elected to office" (96)?
(a) William Hale.
(b) Tom White.
(c) Charles Curtis.
(d) John Palmer.

3. What decade was a writer of the age referring to when calling it "the greatest, gaudiest spree in history" (77)?
(a) The 1890s.
(b) The 1930s.
(c) The 1920s.
(d) The 1870s.

4. When a new law was enacted that deemed Osage people with guardians as "restricted" (79) from that point forward, what did that mean about their situation?
(a) They could not spend more than a few thousand dollars annually.
(b) They could not have access to cash.
(c) They could not shop in stores outside of the reservation.
(d) They could not marry white spouses.

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

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 was Anna's late sister's official cause of death?

3. With what objects did the Osage begin to outline their homes after Henry Roan's murder?

4. In what location of Kansas were the Osage forced to settle once they had been forcibly removed from their ancestral lands in Oklahoma?

5. What happened after Bill Smith confided in several people that he was getting somewhere with his detective work?

(see the answer key)

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