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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom did Mollie turn when the local officials expressed little interest in investigating Anna's murder?
(a) Ernest Burkhart.
(b) Harve Freas.
(c) William Hale.
(d) Tom White.

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

3. In what decade did the U.S. government forcibly move the Osage tribe from their land in Kansas?
(a) 1920s.
(b) 1870s.
(c) 1840s.
(d) 1880s.

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

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

6. When a new law was enacted that deemed Osage people with guardians as "restricted" (79) from that point forward, what did that mean about their situation?
(a) They could not marry white spouses.
(b) They could not shop in stores outside of the reservation.
(c) They could not have access to cash.
(d) They could not spend more than a few thousand dollars annually.

7. Who was listed as the beneficiary on Henry Roan's $25,000 life insurance policy?
(a) William Hale.
(b) Cynthia Roan.
(c) Tom White.
(d) Ernest Burkhart.

8. Which of the following was an action the lawmen took upon finding Anna's body?
(a) Dusted the whiskey bottle for fingerprints.
(b) Took photographs of the scene.
(c) Made a cast impression of the tire tracks.
(d) Detected tire marks in the soil.

9. Within how many years of the Louisiana Purchase were the Osage forced by the U.S. government to "relinquish their territory between the Arkansas River and the Missouri River" (37)?
(a) Ten.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Fifteen.

10. 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 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 they went to sleep in her bed.

11. 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.

12. 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 lush and verdant, so the tribe could practice agriculture.
(c) It was rocky and infertile, so white settlers would leave the tribe alone.
(d) It was large enough to accommodate the tribe's biannual buffalo hunts.

13. 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 had narrowed it down to two suspects.
(c) He said that he knew that and more.
(d) He said that he had no idea.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The county prosecutor requested an exhumation of Anna's body in order to look for what piece of evidence?

2. What promise did William Hale make to Mollie after the bombing of Bill and Rita Smith's home, resulting in their murders?

3. What happened after Bill Smith confided in several people that he was getting somewhere with his detective work?

4. Who created the Bureau of Investigation, "hoping to fill the void in federal law enforcement" (105)?

5. With what objects did the Osage begin to outline their homes after Henry Roan's murder?

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