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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. During what time period did police departments emerge in the United States?
(a) In the mid-nineteenth century.
(b) In the early nineteenth century.
(c) In the late nineteenth century.
(d) In the early twentieth century.

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

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 they went to sleep in her bed.
(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 he dropped Anna off at her home.

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

6. The text states that which person was "revered as the 'King of the Osage Hills'" (29)?
(a) Herve Freas.
(b) Charles Whitehorn.
(c) William Hale.
(d) Ernest Burkhart.

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

8. 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 servant.
(b) His brother.
(c) His wife.
(d) The sheriff.

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

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

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

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

13. When the Osage land auction record rose to nearly $14 million, a reporter remarked in an article, "The Osage Indians are becoming so rich that" (76) what?
(a) Something would have to be done about it.
(b) They would soon be able to leave the country altogether.
(c) Their lives were now worth nothing.
(d) They were in danger of overstepping their bounds.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Osage refer to which month as "the time of the flower-killing moon" (5)?

2. Mollie stated that the last time she had seen Anna, it was at what time of day?

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

4. 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)?

5. Who was the sitting U.S. president when the Louisiana Purchase was enacted?

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