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

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)?
(a) Theodore Roosevelt.
(b) William Hale.
(c) Mollie Burkhart.
(d) Tom White.

3. How many times per year were Osage land auctions held?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

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

5. Which two people did Bill Smith name as his only two enemies as he lay upon his deathbed?
(a) Ernest Burkhart and George Bigheart.
(b) William Hale and Ernest Burkhart.
(c) George Bigheart and William Hale.
(d) Rita Smith and Mollie Burkhart.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was William Hale related to Bryan Burkhart?

2. About what issue did Tom White and J. Edgar Hoover strongly disagree?

3. In what year did Tom White become a special agent of the Bureau of Investigation?

4. How old was Mollie when she married Henry Roan in what was likely an arranged marriage?

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

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