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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What quality nearly always led an Osage person to be appointed a white financial guardian?
(a) Physical disability.
(b) A history of mental illness.
(c) Lack of official enrollment in the tribe.
(d) The lack of white ancestry.

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

3. 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.

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

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

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

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

8. What was found to be the cause of death in W.W. Vaughn's murder?
(a) Asphyxiation.
(b) A gunshot to the head.
(c) Blunt force trauma.
(d) A broken neck.

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

10. Who served as a pallbearer at both Anna's and Henry's funerals?
(a) Tom White.
(b) Bill Smith.
(c) Rita Smith.
(d) William Hale.

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

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

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

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

15. What was W.W. Vaughn's answer when the sheriff asked him if he knew who had killed George Bigheart?
(a) He said that he not only knew, but that he had had custody of the murderer.
(b) He said that he knew that and more.
(c) He said that he had no idea.
(d) He said that he had narrowed it down to two suspects.

Short Answer Questions

1. The last person to be seen with Anna Brown the night she disappeared said that he saw her last when he completed what action?

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

3. Who testified in defense of the Osage people at a Congressional hearing, arguing "that the government should not be dictating the Osage's financial decisions" (79)?

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

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

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