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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chronicle Two: The Evidence Man, Chapters 12-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Before joining the Justice Department, J. Edgar Hoover had been a clerk at what location?
(a) The Department of Transportation.
(b) The Library of Congress.
(c) The Treasury Department.
(d) The Smithsonian.

2. 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?
(a) They would soon be able to leave the country altogether.
(b) Their lives were now worth nothing.
(c) They were in danger of overstepping their bounds.
(d) Something would have to be done about it.

3. In the spring of 1925, J. Edgar Hoover fired many Bureau of Investigation agents in San Francisco for what transgression?
(a) Visiting speakeasies.
(b) Drinking liquor.
(c) Smoking cigars.
(d) Engaging in extramarital affairs.

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

5. What was NOT one of the categories assessed on the Bureau of Investigation's Efficiency Rating sheets?
(a) Fairness.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Judgment.
(d) Personal Appearance.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much insurance money was collected upon the burning of William Hale's fields?

2. Who did Henry Roan consider to be his best friend?

3. 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?

4. During what time period did police departments emerge in the United States?

5. 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)?

(see the answer key)

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