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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what issue did Tom White and J. Edgar Hoover strongly disagree?
(a) The trustworthiness of informers.
(b) The recognition of regional differences in agent assignments.
(c) William Hale's level of involvement in the Osage murders.
(d) The ways in which laymen should speak to the public.

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

3. 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) 1932.
(c) 1926.
(d) 1921.

4. 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?
(a) If Henry Roan owed William Hale a great deal of money.
(b) If Henry Roan were declared to be restricted.
(c) If William Hale paid the policy premiums.
(d) If Henry Roan divorced his wife.

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

6. John Ramsey denied involvement in the murder of Henry Roan until he was shown what document?
(a) His wife's signed confession.
(b) The warrant for his arrest.
(c) Ernest Burkhart's signed confession.
(d) The arrest warrants for his mother and brother.

7. What is NOT one thing Mollie said in defense of her husband Ernest at the time of his arrest?
(a) Ernest would not hurt Mollie under any circumstances.
(b) Ernest is a good and kind man.
(c) Ernest had loved Anna too much to have killed her.
(d) Ernest would not hurt anyone.

8. What changed William Hale's initial reaction to the news that his case would have to be tried in state court?
(a) Tom White informed William Hale that he would only be released for a few hours.
(b) Mollie Burkhart spoke up from the back of the courtroom.
(c) He heard his nephew Ernest Burkhart cry out.
(d) Sheriff Freas arrested William Hale, this time on state charges.

9. Before joining the Justice Department, J. Edgar Hoover had been a clerk at what location?
(a) The Treasury Department.
(b) The Library of Congress.
(c) The Department of Transportation.
(d) The Smithsonian.

10. When the gas station worker revealed to the undercover operative that she knew who had set William Hale's fields on fire, whom did she name as the culprit?
(a) William Hale.
(b) Bryan Burkhart.
(c) Bill Smith.
(d) Dudley White.

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

12. 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) Unrestricted Osage tribe members.
(b) The white outlaws of the Osage Hills.
(c) The guardians of the restricted Osage tribe members.
(d) Restricted Osage tribe members.

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

14. 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) Assault.
(b) Perjury.
(c) Theft.
(d) Witness tampering.

15. At the start of William Hale and John Ramsey's trial, who does William Hale's lawyer ask to have ejected from the courtroom?
(a) Tom White.
(b) Asa Kirby.
(c) Mollie Burkhart.
(d) Ernest Burkhart.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Tom White when he watched his father execute a criminal?

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

3. To what organization did Tom White return after his brother was gunned down in East Texas?

4. What was Mollie's response when the attorney assisting the prosecution asked her if she loved her husband?

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)?

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