This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chronicle Two: The Evidence Man, Chapters 18-21 and Chronicle Three: The Reporter, Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1926, Ernest Burkhart was sentenced to what punishment for his crimes?
(a) Fifteen to twenty years in prison.
(b) Forty years in prison without the possibility of parole.
(c) The death penalty.
(d) Life imprisonment and hard labor.

2. How much insurance money was collected upon the burning of William Hale's fields?
(a) $5,000.
(b) $50,000.
(c) $15,000.
(d) $30,000.

3. In what year did Mollie and Henry marry?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1898.
(d) 1913.

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

5. In what month and year did the justice of the peace close his inquiries into Anna's murder?
(a) May 1918.
(b) October 1923.
(c) November 1927.
(d) July 1921.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Before joining the Justice Department, J. Edgar Hoover had been a clerk at what location?

4. About what crime did Ernest forever claim to have had no prior knowledge?

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

(see the answer key)

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