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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What outrageous claim did William Hale make when he testified on his own behalf?
(a) He claimed that Tom White and his agents had brutally coerced his confession from him using torture.
(b) He claimed that his answers would incriminate him.
(c) He claimed that Ernest Burkhart was jealous of him and wanted to steal William Hale's wife.
(d) He claimed that Henry Roan had committed suicide.

2. At what type of establishment did authorities arrest Ernest Burkhart once a warrant was issued for his arrest?
(a) In a library.
(b) In a pool hall.
(c) In a park.
(d) In a church.

3. 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) Mollie Burkhart.
(c) Asa Kirby.
(d) Ernest Burkhart.

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

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

6. What happened to prevent the hired gunman from killing Katherine Cole?
(a) William Hale stabbed him to death.
(b) He decided not to go through with it and then told the police about the plot.
(c) He was shot.
(d) He disappeared.

7. What event resulted in putting a stop to the campaign to fire Tom White and his men?
(a) J. Edgar Hoover was given a commendation by the U.S. government.
(b) Ernest Burkhart made a full confession.
(c) Tom White was killed in the line of duty.
(d) The governor of Oklahoma was assassinated.

8. Tom White discovered that the Shoun brothers had been giving Mollie injections that were supposed to contain what substance?
(a) Vitamin B.
(b) Insulin.
(c) Smallpox vaccinations.
(d) Morphine.

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

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

11. How much did Ernest Burkhart offer to pay Burt Lawson for murdering Bill Smith?
(a) $15,000.
(b) $5,000.
(c) $25,000.
(d) $50,000.

12. 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) William Hale.
(c) Bill Smith.
(d) Rita Smith.

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

14. In what famous murder case were handwriting and document analysis first instrumentally used?
(a) The Boston Strangler.
(b) H.H. Holmes.
(c) Leopold and Loeb.
(d) Jack the Ripper.

15. Which two people did Bill Smith name as his only two enemies as he lay upon his deathbed?
(a) William Hale and Ernest Burkhart.
(b) George Bigheart and William Hale.
(c) Ernest Burkhart and George Bigheart.
(d) Rita Smith and Mollie Burkhart.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Ernest Burkhart finally decided to talk, who did he demand to speak to during his confession?

2. Who did Bill Smith name as the executor of his slain wife Rita's will as he lay upon his deathbed?

3. 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)?

4. What was NOT one of the categories assessed on the Bureau of Investigation's Efficiency Rating sheets?

5. A government study estimated that prior to 1925, how much money had been stolen from adult Osage wards by their appointed white guardians?

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