View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lots at the Osage land auction were never sold for less than what sum of money?
(a) $15,000.
(b) $5,000.
(c) $500.
(d) $2,500.

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

3. How old was Mollie when she married Henry Roan in what was likely an arranged marriage?
(a) 18.
(b) 15.
(c) 17.
(d) 20.

4. How long after Anna's murder did her mother Lizzie die of a "peculiar wasting illness" (35)?
(a) Less than two months.
(b) Less than two weeks.
(c) Less than one month.
(d) Less than three months.

5. What was Anna's late sister's official cause of death?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) A wasting illness.
(d) Brain cancer.

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

7. Within how many years of the Louisiana Purchase were the Osage forced by the U.S. government to "relinquish their territory between the Arkansas River and the Missouri River" (37)?
(a) Four.
(b) Ten.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Two.

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

9. How long after Barney McBride's murder was Henry Roan's body found?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Six months.
(c) Three days.
(d) Two months.

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

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

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

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

14. What is NOT one role the author names when describing Henry Grammer?
(a) Train robber.
(b) Murderer.
(c) Bootlegger.
(d) Steer-roping champion.

15. Harve M. Freas was the sheriff of what county at the time of Anna's death?
(a) Okfuskee County.
(b) Canadian County.
(c) Osage County.
(d) Roger Mills County.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Mollie and Henry marry?

2. Who was the first person Mollie suspected of possibly being involved in Anna's murder?

3. What was found to be the cause of death in W.W. Vaughn's murder?

4. What caused the justice of the peace to stop convening inquests into the latest Osage murders in 1923?

5. Who was Mollie's appointed financial guardian?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 427 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample