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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What was the name of Mollie's husband?
(a) Ernest Burkhart.
(b) Charles Whitehorn.
(c) Harve Freas.
(d) William Hale.

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

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

5. 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 adopt the Smiths' children.
(b) He promised to move away from the reservation.
(c) He promised to avenge her family's murders.
(d) He promised to pay for the renovation of the Smiths' former home.

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

7. Who did Henry Roan consider to be his best friend?
(a) Ernest Burkhart.
(b) William Hale.
(c) Bryan Burkhart.
(d) Tom White.

8. What was Anna's late sister's official cause of death?
(a) Brain cancer.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) A wasting illness.

9. The county prosecutor requested an exhumation of Anna's body in order to look for what piece of evidence?
(a) Hair.
(b) A bullet.
(c) Signs of suffocation.
(d) Fingernail scratches.

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

11. In which settlement did Mollie and her family live within the Osage reservation?
(a) Whizbang.
(b) Pawhuska.
(c) Gray Horse.
(d) Sutpen.

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

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

14. Which of Mollie's sisters had died three years before the beginning of the narrative?
(a) Mabel.
(b) Minnie.
(c) Lizzie.
(d) Anna.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. Mollie's brother-in-law Bill Smith was convinced that Lizzie had actually died due to what cause?

3. Who was the only one to survive the bombing of the Smiths' home, but only lived for four days?

4. In what year was the law enacted that deemed Osage people with financial guardians as "restricted" (79)?

5. What item did Mollie and her family place within Anna's coffin on the day of her funeral, in keeping with Osage beliefs?

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