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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What method did Tom White's father use to execute a criminal while his son Tom White watched?
(a) Guillotine.
(b) Hanging.
(c) Electrocution.
(d) Stoning.

2. When the undercover operative talked to the worker at the Fairfax gas station, who did she name as controlling all aspects of life in the area?
(a) Ernest Burkhart.
(b) Tom White.
(c) David Shoun.
(d) William Hale.

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

4. What was William Hale's reaction to the judge's ruling that the case could be adjudicated only in state court?
(a) He celebrated.
(b) He smirked at Mollie Burkhart.
(c) He burst into tears.
(d) He screamed obscenities at the judge.

5. How old was Mollie's daughter Anna when she mysteriously died?
(a) Eight.
(b) Three.
(c) Six.
(d) Four.

6. Al Spencer told Tom White that William Hale had once offered him $2,000 to kill which two people?
(a) Mollie and Ernest Burkhart.
(b) Bill and Anna Smith.
(c) W.W. Vaughn and Barney McBride.
(d) Dick Gregg and Bryan Burkhart.

7. 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 gone to the bar to celebrate.
(b) He said he had gone home and had eaten supper.
(c) He said he had become frozen with fear.
(d) He said he had succumbed to a nervous breakdown.

8. To what event did the euphemism "necktie party" (139) refer?
(a) Legal hangings.
(b) Lynchings.
(c) Communal dinners.
(d) Black tie affairs.

9. 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) 1926.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1932.

10. 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 Colorado attorney general.
(b) The Kansas attorney general.
(c) The Oklahoma attorney general.
(d) The Utah attorney general.

11. In what organization did Tom White enlist when he was 24?
(a) The Daughters of the American Revolution.
(b) The Masons.
(c) The Texas Rangers.
(d) The Anti-Indian Militia.

12. With whose lawyers did Ernest Burkhart enter the judge's chambers for a private conversation, much to the dismay of the prosecution?
(a) Asa Kirby's lawyers.
(b) John Ramsey's lawyers.
(c) Bryan Burkhart's lawyers.
(d) William Hale's lawyers.

13. 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 find the mole with the Reign of Terror investigation.
(b) He was hired as a bodyguard for Tom White.
(c) He was hired to kill Kelsie Morrison.
(d) He was hired to conceal Bryan's whereabouts on the night of Anna's murder.

14. Who lit the fuse to the bomb under the Smiths' home?
(a) Bryan Burkhart.
(b) Ernest Burkhart.
(c) Burt Lawson.
(d) William Hale.

15. 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) Smoking cigars.
(c) Drinking liquor.
(d) Visiting speakeasies.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What outrageous claim did William Hale make when he testified on his own behalf?

3. Which one of Tom White's brothers was gunned down when he went to arrest a pair of deserters in East Texas?

4. At what type of establishment did authorities arrest Ernest Burkhart once a warrant was issued for his arrest?

5. As a last resort before William Hale would be released, who did Tom White have transported to Guthrie without J. Edgar Hoover's knowledge?

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