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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom was Anna riding in a car the final time Mollie saw Anna alive?
(a) Ernest Burkhart.
(b) Bryan Burkhart.
(c) Charles Whitehorn.
(d) William Hale.

2. How many days did the Schoun brothers determine had passed between the time of Anna's murder and the finding of her body?
(a) Five to seven days.
(b) Nine to eleven days.
(c) Twenty-four to thirty-six hours.
(d) Three to five days.

3. The text states that American lawmen in the 1920s "were then still largely" (19) what?
(a) Inept.
(b) Corrupt.
(c) Vigilantes.
(d) Amateurs.

4. What did the sheriff of Osage County do once he was notified that Anna's body had been found?
(a) He notified Anna's family about the discovery of her body.
(b) He called the FBI.
(c) He sent one of his deputies to collect evidence.
(d) He went to the scene to take photographs.

5. What quality of the land convinced the Osage chief Wah-Ti-An-Kah and others in the tribe to purchase it as their new homeland?
(a) It was lush and verdant, so the tribe could practice agriculture.
(b) It was rocky and infertile, so white settlers would leave the tribe alone.
(c) It was oil-rich.
(d) It was large enough to accommodate the tribe's biannual buffalo hunts.

6. Who created the Bureau of Investigation, "hoping to fill the void in federal law enforcement" (105)?
(a) President James Garfield.
(b) Tom White.
(c) President Theodore Roosevelt.
(d) J. Edgar Hoover.

7. What writer does the author quote when he writes that the age described in the narrative "was a time marked" (77) by an author who called it "the greatest, gaudiest spree in history"? (77)
(a) Ernest Hemingway.
(b) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(c) Gertrude Stein.
(d) T.S. Eliot.

8. Which of Mollie's sisters had died three years before the beginning of the narrative?
(a) Lizzie.
(b) Anna.
(c) Mabel.
(d) Minnie.

9. How was William Hale related to Bryan Burkhart?
(a) William Hale was Bryan Burkhart's nephew.
(b) Bryan Burkhart was William Hale's nephew.
(c) William Hale was Bryan Burkhart's father-in-law.
(d) William Hale and Bryan Burkhart were second cousins.

10. Mollie stated that the last time she had seen Anna, it was at what time of day?
(a) Sundown.
(b) Midnight.
(c) Noon.
(d) Sunrise.

11. How old was Henry Roan at the time of his murder?
(a) 40.
(b) 24.
(c) 51.
(d) 34.

12. What caliber pistol was used to kill both Charles Whitehorn and Anna Brown?
(a) .45
(b) .22.
(c) .357.
(d) .32.

13. The last person to be seen with Anna Brown the night she disappeared said that he saw her last when he completed what action?
(a) When he dropped Anna off at her home.
(b) When he relented and let her out of the car on the side of the highway.
(c) When he dropped her off at her favorite bar.
(d) When they went to sleep in her bed.

14. What was determined to be the cause of Anna's death?
(a) A gunshot wound.
(b) Asphyxiation.
(c) Poisoning.
(d) Pneumonia.

15. What quality nearly always led an Osage person to be appointed a white financial guardian?
(a) The lack of white ancestry.
(b) Lack of official enrollment in the tribe.
(c) A history of mental illness.
(d) Physical disability.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Minnie when she died?

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

3. Just before W.W. Vaughn left his house for the last time, to whom did he give information about hidden evidence and money?

4. How long after Barney McBride's murder was Henry Roan's body found?

5. The text states that which person was "revered as the 'King of the Osage Hills'" (29)?

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