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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was determined to be the cause of Anna's death?
(a) Asphyxiation.
(b) A gunshot wound.
(c) Poisoning.
(d) Pneumonia.

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

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

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

5. What quality of the land convinced the Osage chief Wah-Ti-An-Kah and others in the tribe to purchase it as their new homeland?
(a) It was oil-rich.
(b) It was rocky and infertile, so white settlers would leave the tribe alone.
(c) It was lush and verdant, so the tribe could practice agriculture.
(d) It was large enough to accommodate the tribe's biannual buffalo hunts.

6. Who was the only one to survive the bombing of the Smiths' home, but only lived for four days?
(a) Rita Smith.
(b) Mollie Burkhart.
(c) Nettie Brookshire.
(d) Bill Smith.

7. In what year was the Louisiana Purchase enacted, "which contained lands dominated by the Osage" (37)?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1803.
(c) 1816.
(d) 1795.

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

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

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

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

12. With whom was Anna riding in a car the final time Mollie saw Anna alive?
(a) Ernest Burkhart.
(b) Bryan Burkhart.
(c) Charles Whitehorn.
(d) William Hale.

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

14. 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) The lack of white ancestry.
(d) Lack of official enrollment in the tribe.

15. 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) Sodom and Gomorrah.
(d) David and Goliath.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT one role the author names when describing Henry Grammer?

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

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

4. Who was listed as the beneficiary on Henry Roan's $25,000 life insurance policy?

5. What sentence did Henry Grammer receive after he "gunned down a sheepshearer" (87) in Montana in 1904?

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