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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What fact made the authorities certain that W.W. Vaughn's disappearance from his train was the result of foul play?
(a) Poison residue was found in his drink glass.
(b) W.W. Vaughn's luggage was still on the train.
(c) There was broken glass and blood on his train seat.
(d) A ransom note was left on his train seat.

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

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

4. In what year was the law enacted that deemed Osage people with financial guardians as "restricted" (79)?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1921.

5. When a new law was enacted that deemed Osage people with guardians as "restricted" (79) from that point forward, what did that mean about their situation?
(a) They could not have access to cash.
(b) They could not shop in stores outside of the reservation.
(c) They could not marry white spouses.
(d) They could not spend more than a few thousand dollars annually.

6. What Biblical reference did a government inspector make during his plea to Congress asking them to take greater control over the Osage people and their money?
(a) Samson and Delilah.
(b) David and Goliath.
(c) Sodom and Gomorrah.
(d) Cain and Abel.

7. Who was listed as the beneficiary on Henry Roan's $25,000 life insurance policy?
(a) Cynthia Roan.
(b) Tom White.
(c) Ernest Burkhart.
(d) William Hale.

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

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

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

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

12. What item of Anna's was found at the murder scene and was given to Anna's mother?
(a) A bracelet.
(b) An earring.
(c) A locket.
(d) A ring.

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

14. In what state was the Osage tribe's land located in 1921 at the time of the narrative's beginning?
(a) Colorado.
(b) Oklahoma.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Kansas.

15. Mollie's brother-in-law Bill Smith was convinced that Lizzie had actually died due to what cause?
(a) Smallpox.
(b) Poisoning.
(c) Influenza.
(d) Suffocation.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Anna's funeral was composed of a mix between Osage traditions and what other traditions?

3. What was the name of Mollie's husband?

4. In what month and year did the justice of the peace close his inquiries into Anna's murder?

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?

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