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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who did Bill Smith name as the executor of his slain wife Rita's will as he lay upon his deathbed?
(a) James Shoun.
(b) David Shoun.
(c) Mollie Burkhart.
(d) William Hale.

3. When Pike, the private detective from Kansas, revealed that he had not really been hired to solve Anna's murder, what did he reveal his true purpose to be?
(a) He was hired to conceal Bryan's whereabouts on the night of Anna's murder.
(b) He was hired as a bodyguard for Tom White.
(c) He was hired to find the mole with the Reign of Terror investigation.
(d) He was hired to kill Kelsie Morrison.

4. 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?
(a) Witness tampering.
(b) Perjury.
(c) Assault.
(d) Theft.

5. Who hired a hitman to murder Katherine Cole, Kelsie Morrison's former wife, "who was Osage and had agreed to testify for the prosecution" (200)?
(a) Henry Roan.
(b) Henry Grammer.
(c) Kelsie Morrison.
(d) Sheriff Freas.

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

7. With whom did Tom White and the prosecutors work in order to keep William Hale and John Ramsey behind bars by filing state charges against them for the bombing murders?
(a) The Kansas attorney general.
(b) The Utah attorney general.
(c) The Colorado attorney general.
(d) The Oklahoma attorney general.

8. To whom did Anna Brown bequeath nearly all her wealth upon her death?
(a) Her sister Mollie.
(b) Her sister Minnie.
(c) Her mother Lizzie.
(d) Her daughter Anna.

9. How does the author describe William Hale's manner immediately after Tom White had detailed the overwhelming evidence incriminating William Hale in several murders?
(a) Nervous.
(b) Detached.
(c) Unperturbed.
(d) Preoccupied.

10. Who was the last person who had to die before Ernest Burkhart would control all of his wife's family's headrights?
(a) Mollie Burkhart.
(b) Bill Smith.
(c) Rita Smith.
(d) William Hale.

11. What was NOT one of the categories assessed on the Bureau of Investigation's Efficiency Rating sheets?
(a) Judgment.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Personal Appearance.
(d) Fairness.

12. To what organization did Tom White return after his brother was gunned down in East Texas?
(a) The U.S. Marines.
(b) The Bureau of Investigation.
(c) The Texas Rangers.
(d) The County Sheriff's office.

13. In what year were warrants issued for William Hale and Ernest Burkhart's arrests in the murders of Bill Smith, Rita Smith, and Nettie Brookshire?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1926.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1932.

14. In what year was Tom White's father elected as county sheriff?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1896.
(d) 1881.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. J. Edgar Hoover often repeated the maxim "You either improve or" (167) do what?

3. Whom did Ernest Burkhart name as Anna's murderer?

4. Which two people did Bill Smith name as his only two enemies as he lay upon his deathbed?

5. The author states that when William Hale turned himself in to Sheriff Freas, he looked as if he were going where?

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