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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author states that when William Hale turned himself in to Sheriff Freas, he looked as if he were going where?
(a) To church.
(b) To a formal party.
(c) To heaven.
(d) To his execution.

2. Who served as a guardian to both Anna and Lizzie before their deaths?
(a) Ernest Burkhart.
(b) David Shoun.
(c) William Hale.
(d) Scott Mathis.

3. When Tom White married in 1908, whom did he marry?
(a) Rita Smith.
(b) Anna Brown.
(c) Bessie Patterson.
(d) Martha Mattingly.

4. What was Kelsie Morrison's answer when he was asked what he had done directly after shooting Anna in the head?
(a) He said he had succumbed to a nervous breakdown.
(b) He said he had become frozen with fear.
(c) He said he had gone home and had eaten supper.
(d) He said he had gone to the bar to celebrate.

5. In what year did Tom White become a special agent of the Bureau of Investigation?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1907.
(d) 1912.

6. A government study estimated that prior to 1925, how much money had been stolen from adult Osage wards by their appointed white guardians?
(a) $2,000,000.
(b) $3,500,000.
(c) $8,000,000.
(d) $18,000,000.

7. Tom White was told by Mollie's priest that she sent him a secret message stating what?
(a) That she wished to be given last rites in case anything happened to her.
(b) That she was afraid someone was trying to poison her.
(c) That she wanted permission to annul her marriage to Ernest.
(d) That she wanted to return to church.

8. Even though Burt Lawson turned down Ernest Burkhart's offer twice, what caused him to finally relent and agree to bomb Bill Smith's house?
(a) He found out that an Osage man had been having an affair with his wife.
(b) He needed the money to pay off gambling debts.
(c) He was arrested and was visited by William Hale, who promised legal assistance as long as Burt Lawson agreed to bomb Bill Smith's house.
(d) He was arrested and an attempt on his life was made inside the jail.

9. Who did Pike claim had hired him to perform his required task?
(a) J. Edgar Hoover.
(b) Ernest Burkhart.
(c) William Hale.
(d) Tom White.

10. Once Tom White realized that corrupt white citizens would not implicate one another, what group did he turn to next in his quest to solve the Osage murders?
(a) Restricted Osage tribe members.
(b) Unrestricted Osage tribe members.
(c) The guardians of the restricted Osage tribe members.
(d) The white outlaws of the Osage Hills.

11. In the spring of 1925, J. Edgar Hoover fired many Bureau of Investigation agents in San Francisco for what transgression?
(a) Engaging in extramarital affairs.
(b) Drinking liquor.
(c) Visiting speakeasies.
(d) Smoking cigars.

12. In 1926, Ernest Burkhart was sentenced to what punishment for his crimes?
(a) Life imprisonment and hard labor.
(b) The death penalty.
(c) Fifteen to twenty years in prison.
(d) Forty years in prison without the possibility of parole.

13. Whose headright had William Hale tried to purchase prior to the owner's death?
(a) Henry Roan.
(b) Rita Smith.
(c) Charles Whitehorn.
(d) W.W. Vaughn.

14. Who was NOT among the people Bill Smith met with in the hospital shortly before his death, when he asked the nurse to leave the room?
(a) William Hale.
(b) His lawyer.
(c) James Shoun.
(d) David Shoun.

15. How old was Tom White when his mother died?
(a) 6.
(b) 12.
(c) 8.
(d) 16.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much insurance money was collected upon the burning of William Hale's fields?

2. When William Hale tried to take out an insurance policy on Henry Roan, he was told that he could only do so if what condition were true?

3. Soon after the grand jury proceedings against William Hale began, one of his "cronies" (200), who also happened to be a pastor, was charged with committing what crime?

4. Tom White discovered that the Shoun brothers had been giving Mollie injections that were supposed to contain what substance?

5. With whose lawyers did Ernest Burkhart enter the judge's chambers for a private conversation, much to the dismay of the prosecution?

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