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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Tom White join the Bureau of Investigation?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1904.
(d) 1928.

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

3. What happened after Bill Smith confided in several people that he was getting somewhere with his detective work?
(a) He was set on fire.
(b) He was shot.
(c) His house was bombed.
(d) He went missing and was eventually declared dead.

4. What item did Mollie and her family place within Anna's coffin on the day of her funeral, in keeping with Osage beliefs?
(a) Food.
(b) Money.
(c) Blankets.
(d) Silver.

5. With what objects did the Osage begin to outline their homes after Henry Roan's murder?
(a) Electric light bulbs.
(b) Radium paint.
(c) Torches.
(d) Candles.

6. Who served as a pallbearer at both Anna's and Henry's funerals?
(a) Rita Smith.
(b) Bill Smith.
(c) William Hale.
(d) Tom White.

7. Who was the only one to survive the bombing of the Smiths' home, but only lived for four days?
(a) Bill Smith.
(b) Nettie Brookshire.
(c) Rita Smith.
(d) Mollie Burkhart.

8. 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)?
(a) Charles Curtis.
(b) William Hale.
(c) Tom White.
(d) John Palmer.

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

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

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

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

13. In what year was the Louisiana Purchase enacted, "which contained lands dominated by the Osage" (37)?
(a) 1795.
(b) 1876.
(c) 1816.
(d) 1803.

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

15. Just before W.W. Vaughn left his house for the last time, to whom did he give information about hidden evidence and money?
(a) The sheriff.
(b) His brother.
(c) His servant.
(d) His wife.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The county prosecutor requested an exhumation of Anna's body in order to look for what piece of evidence?

3. In which settlement did Mollie and her family live within the Osage reservation?

4. What fact made the authorities certain that W.W. Vaughn's disappearance from his train was the result of foul play?

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

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