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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What method was used by Henry Roan's murderer?
(a) Poison.
(b) Suffocation.
(c) Gunfire.
(d) Strangulation.

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

4. 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 her off at her favorite bar.
(b) When he dropped Anna off at her home.
(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.

5. How old was Minnie when she died?
(a) 27.
(b) 32.
(c) 21.
(d) 45.

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) Cain and Abel.
(b) Samson and Delilah.
(c) David and Goliath.
(d) Sodom and Gomorrah.

7. In what month and year did the justice of the peace close his inquiries into Anna's murder?
(a) October 1923.
(b) November 1927.
(c) July 1921.
(d) May 1918.

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

9. 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.

10. The text states that the Osage tribe took in more than $30 million in what year?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1886.

11. What promise did William Hale make to Mollie after the bombing of Bill and Rita Smith's home, resulting in their murders?
(a) He promised to move away from the reservation.
(b) He promised to avenge her family's murders.
(c) He promised to pay for the renovation of the Smiths' former home.
(d) He promised to adopt the Smiths' children.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Anna's late sister's official cause of death?

2. Which of Mollie's sisters had died three years before the beginning of the narrative?

3. Harve M. Freas was the sheriff of what county at the time of Anna's death?

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

5. In what year did Mollie and Henry marry?

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