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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chronicle Three: The Reporter, Chapters 23-26.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. During what time period did police departments emerge in the United States?
(a) In the late nineteenth century.
(b) In the early twentieth century.
(c) In the mid-nineteenth century.
(d) In the early nineteenth century.

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

4. In what location of Kansas were the Osage forced to settle once they had been forcibly removed from their ancestral lands in Oklahoma?
(a) Northwestern Kansas.
(b) Southwestern Iowa.
(c) Southeastern Colorado.
(d) Southeastern Kansas.

5. Tom White discovered that the Shoun brothers had been giving Mollie injections that were supposed to contain what substance?
(a) Insulin.
(b) Morphine.
(c) Smallpox vaccinations.
(d) Vitamin B.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states that when William Hale turned himself in to Sheriff Freas, he looked as if he were going where?

2. Which of Mollie's sisters had died three years before the beginning of the narrative?

3. What happened to prevent the hired gunman from killing Katherine Cole?

4. How old was Henry Roan at the time of his murder?

5. Which one of Tom White's brothers was gunned down when he went to arrest a pair of deserters in East Texas?

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