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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long after Anna's murder did her mother Lizzie die of a "peculiar wasting illness" (35)?
(a) Less than two weeks.
(b) Less than two months.
(c) Less than three months.
(d) Less than one month.

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

3. What caused the justice of the peace to stop convening inquests into the latest Osage murders in 1923?
(a) He received anonymous threats.
(b) He lost interest in the case.
(c) He was murdered.
(d) He was bribed.

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

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

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

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

8. What decade was a writer of the age referring to when calling it "the greatest, gaudiest spree in history" (77)?
(a) The 1870s.
(b) The 1920s.
(c) The 1930s.
(d) The 1890s.

9. 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) Nine to eleven days.
(c) Three to five days.
(d) Five to seven days.

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

11. 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)?
(a) Mollie Burkhart.
(b) William Hale.
(c) Tom White.
(d) Theodore Roosevelt.

12. In what location of Kansas were the Osage forced to settle once they had been forcibly removed from their ancestral lands in Oklahoma?
(a) Southeastern Colorado.
(b) Southeastern Kansas.
(c) Northwestern Kansas.
(d) Southwestern Iowa.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom did Mollie turn when the local officials expressed little interest in investigating Anna's murder?

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

3. Just before W.W. Vaughn left his house for the last time, to whom did he give information about hidden evidence and money?

4. How old was Minnie when she died?

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

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