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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Mollie's appointed financial guardian?
(a) Ernest Burkhart.
(b) Bryan Burkhart.
(c) Bill Smith.
(d) William Hale.

2. Who was the first person Mollie suspected of possibly being involved in Anna's murder?
(a) Oda Brown.
(b) Tom White.
(c) William Hale.
(d) Bryan Burkhart.

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

4. In what year did Mollie and Henry marry?
(a) 1898.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1913.

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

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

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

8. 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 large enough to accommodate the tribe's biannual buffalo hunts.
(b) It was oil-rich.
(c) It was lush and verdant, so the tribe could practice agriculture.
(d) It was rocky and infertile, so white settlers would leave the tribe alone.

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

10. Under what natural feature did the auctioneer stand when conducting the Osage land auctions?
(a) A rock bridge.
(b) A tree.
(c) A waterfall.
(d) A sandstone cliff.

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

12. 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) T.S. Eliot.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) Gertrude Stein.

13. 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) Two.
(b) Ten.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Four.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The text states that the Osage tribe took in more than $30 million in what year?

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

3. With whom was Anna riding in a car the final time Mollie saw Anna alive?

4. What quality nearly always led an Osage person to be appointed a white financial guardian?

5. What sentence did Henry Grammer receive after he "gunned down a sheepshearer" (87) in Montana in 1904?

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