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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Three to five days.
(c) Twenty-four to thirty-six hours.
(d) Nine to eleven days.

2. Who was the sitting U.S. president when the Louisiana Purchase was enacted?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) James Madison.
(d) George Washington.

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

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

5. 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 bribed.
(d) He was murdered.

6. 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 Kansas.
(b) Southeastern Colorado.
(c) Northwestern Kansas.
(d) Southwestern Iowa.

7. How old was Mollie when she married Henry Roan in what was likely an arranged marriage?
(a) 17.
(b) 15.
(c) 18.
(d) 20.

8. 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.

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

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

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

12. How many times per year were Osage land auctions held?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.

13. 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.

14. 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 spend more than a few thousand dollars annually.
(b) They could not marry white spouses.
(c) They could not shop in stores outside of the reservation.
(d) They could not have access to cash.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The text states that American lawmen in the 1920s "were then still largely" (19) what?

2. How was William Hale related to Bryan Burkhart?

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

4. What method was used by Henry Roan's murderer?

5. In what state was the Osage tribe's land located in 1921 at the time of the narrative's beginning?

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