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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Anna's funeral was composed of a mix between Osage traditions and what other traditions?
(a) Celtic.
(b) Presbyterian.
(c) Sioux.
(d) Catholic.

2. What was the name of Mollie's husband?
(a) William Hale.
(b) Harve Freas.
(c) Charles Whitehorn.
(d) Ernest Burkhart.

3. In which settlement did Mollie and her family live within the Osage reservation?
(a) Pawhuska.
(b) Whizbang.
(c) Gray Horse.
(d) Sutpen.

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

5. 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) William Hale.
(b) Tom White.
(c) Charles Curtis.
(d) John Palmer.

6. Who did Henry Roan consider to be his best friend?
(a) William Hale.
(b) Ernest Burkhart.
(c) Tom White.
(d) Bryan Burkhart.

7. Who was the sitting U.S. president when the Louisiana Purchase was enacted?
(a) Abraham Lincoln.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) George Washington.
(d) James Madison.

8. 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) His house was bombed.
(c) He was shot.
(d) He went missing and was eventually declared dead.

9. The Osage refer to which month as "the time of the flower-killing moon" (5)?
(a) May.
(b) April.
(c) October.
(d) June.

10. 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) Gertrude Stein.
(b) T.S. Eliot.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

11. 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 dropped her off at her favorite bar.
(c) When he relented and let her out of the car on the side of the highway.
(d) When they went to sleep in her bed.

12. What sentence did Henry Grammer receive after he "gunned down a sheepshearer" (87) in Montana in 1904?
(a) Fifteen years.
(b) Five years.
(c) Three years.
(d) Twenty-five years.

13. To whom did Mollie turn when the local officials expressed little interest in investigating Anna's murder?
(a) Ernest Burkhart.
(b) William Hale.
(c) Harve Freas.
(d) Tom White.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What prompted Tom White to come to Washington, D.C.?

4. In what year did Mollie and Henry marry?

5. Who created the Bureau of Investigation, "hoping to fill the void in federal law enforcement" (105)?

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